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3 Ways to Bring Up Test Scores with Reading Apprenticeship
Last week we talked about ways you can start using Reading Apprenticeship in your classroom. Today, we’re going to cover three instructional “plug-and-play” strategies you can use with both STEM and ELA and how to modify them to fit the grades and reading levels of your students. All three of these strategies can be used at once, or in different
Reading Apprenticeship and STEM: How to Get Started
Reading Apprenticeship focuses on elementary students’ comprehension and metacognitive conversation. The metacognitive conversation is the process of being aware of your own thoughts. When students develop an awareness of their metacognitive conversations, they can begin to assess their own learning, and they can also voice what they need in order to accomplish their own learning goals. In other words, a
9 Ways to Use Text with STEM
9 Ways to use text with STEM Hello there! This week, I created a vlog to go through 9 different ways you can bring texts into STEM for a “minds-on” experience in addition to hands-on! Enjoy! Additional Resources If you want more resources, subscribe to our channel and to our resource library, which you can access here: https://courses.steamcafe.net/products Books: Give
2 Ways to Integrate Literacy Into Science
When I was a high school teacher, I took a program called reading apprenticeship, which gave me some powerful instructional techniques to help kids break down and interpret scientific texts. That program turned everything I knew about teaching upside-down, and it was the start to my journey of becoming a learning theorist. Reading apprenticeship showed me how to approach teaching
STEAM Café Resources – Our Top 5 Posts of 2019
We wanted to share our most popular blogs of 2019 with you. We hope these resources will help you start 2020 strong! These posts offer
Teaching Snowflake STEM in K-5
Elementary STEM Activities Last week, we ran a free webinar on “Teaching Snowflake STEM in K-5.” We took the concept of a snowflake lesson and
STEM Makeover: How to Throw a STEAM Holiday Party with Simple Circuits and Old Christmas Lights
Circuits: Making Connections with Hands-on Learning, Basic Materials, and Tools Got some old festive tree lights laying around the house? Don’t throw them out.
STEM Makeover! Gingerbread Houses: How to Turn Your Activity Into Authentic STEM
Building gingerbread houses is a popular classroom activity this time of year. Although the activity can be craft-based (ergo, everyone does the same craft,
Make the Most of Your Donors Choose Project Request
Donors Choose is a fantastic way to get STEM materials that are under $1,000 for your classroom, and right now through December is the perfect
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