This online workshop
will introduce SECOND GRADE teachers to an exemplar grade-specific science unit
of study intended to be integrated into the literacy block. Through this
professional learning, educators will experience how phenomenon-based science
instruction can support the use of nonfiction vocabulary and text within the
literacy block. The unit 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 a high quality instructional
material in science. 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. This virtual session is a
state-wide session presented by specialists from three cooperatives.