7th Grade Science Guide

Text Compacting is a way to shorten informational text and still maintain the critical pieces of information. The text compactor allows you to shorten lengthy text quickly. This is a great support for special education and multilingual learners. The noun project offers free icons and stock photos to help teachers illustrate components from text or big ideas. Engineering a text is a great way to make the text accessible for special education and multilingual learners. There are several ways to Engineer or Amplify a text, and they can be found in the resource. Science Teacher Talk Moves to Support Classroom Discussion Talk Science STEM Teacher Cards - provide sentence stems for teacher to promote deeper thinking. Constructive Conversation Resource Cards - provide sentence starters as prompts and responses for creating, fortifying, clarifying, and evaluating. A tool that can provide a familiar structure for students to engage in around classroom talk activity. Using a similar generic tool like this reduces student confusion as they become used to the tool, improves the data teachers can collect on students’ learning during instruction, and helps inform next steps of instruction. This tool is an example of what can be done to support student sensemaking, but can be easily adapted to be more specifc. Response cards are an easy way for students to share a simple yes or no, true or false, abcd answer with you without speaking.

Text Compactor

The Noun Project

Engineering a Text

Science Teacher Talk Moves Teacher Talk Tracker

Talk Science Teacher Cards

Constructive Conversation Resource Cards

Classroom Talk Prewrite, Notes and Post-write Graphic Organizer.

Response Cards