This online workshop
will introduce FIFTH 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.