Science+Language℠ 6-8 Accelerates Concept Mastery
Science+Language 6-8 helps students acquire complex science concepts by providing language scaffolds, developing scientific communication skills, and by delivering tools for investigating phenomena, explaining reasoning, and writing & refining claims and conclusions. It's easy to implement and has been shown by NSF-sponsored research to be impactful with a dosage of as little as 30 minutes per week.
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Science reading passages in Speak Agent, such as this Read Along, serve as a focal point for classroom discourse. All student responses are captured in the digital portfolio.
Diagram It! provides opportunities to review, label, and explain diagrams in writing or recorded speech. Writing and speaking activities in Speak Agent capture student work samples in a digital portfolio, providing actionable data.
Word Gallery is a great way to introduce new science concepts to your class. It works well on a projector or screen sharing in Zoom. Or, students can use it as a digital word wall!
Speaking activities like My Voice encourage students to verbalize science terms and concepts and to explain processes, patterns, or conclusions.
Sentence processing activities like Scrambled Sentences build comprehension by breaking scientific explanations and stories into manageable chunks that students can manipulate.
Story-based activities like Tall Tales use context clues to develop comprehension of the core content.
Vocab Lab presents a short passage that uses a target scientific term in a real-world context. Next, students combine basic words they have already learned to define the target term.
The digital portfolio stores open-ended responses, writing samples, voice recordings, and creative projects.
Modules and Standards
Science+Language 6-8 consists of easy-to-implement modules that can be aligned to fit your scope, sequence, and pacing.
Program Support
Speak Agent embeds academic language supports into your Tier 1 instruction to meet the needs of all students. Marginalized learners, including multilingual, Title I, and students with learning differences, particularly benefit from Speak Agent's research-based, multimodal instructional strategies. These provide learning scaffolds that help students make connections to background knowledge, master complex concepts, and acquire the expressive language needed to communicate both verbally and in writing with precision and confidence.