This online professional learning will introduce FIRST
GRADE teachers to an exemplar grade-specific science unit of study intended to
be implemented into the literacy block. Through this professional learning,
educators will experience how phenomenon-based science instruction can support
nonfiction vocabulary and text within the literacy block. K-2 units will
include phonics/phonemic awareness, science informational text, and the
analysis of student work samples. The purpose of this exemplar unit is to serve
as an example of what high-quality instructional material in science resembles.
This session will provide the knowledge necessary to identify opportunities to
integrate science and literacy and identify essential components that could be
missing from existing materials. This professional learning supports the PLC
process.