Literacy Strategies for Biology: Cells and Organelles

Description

Literacy Strategies for Biology: Cells & Organelles includes constructed response questions, graphic organizers, and a word wall to enhance the Cells chapter in high school Biology.

Major Topics Covered:

• cell theory
• prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells
• plant and animal cells
• organelles and their functions

Incorporating more writing and reading in the Biology classroom is a worthy goal. However, it takes a lot of time to design standards-based questions, develop scoring rubrics and then read and grade each response, especially when you have 140 or more students!

The constructed response questions are what we used to call short answer or short answer essay questions. They are aligned to NGSS and CCSS for Literacy and are easily assessed with a clear, concise 3-point rubric.

I have also included graphic organizers and word wall cards, which are two other research-based literacy strategies.

Together, these strategies will contribute to the development of a deep foundation of factual knowledge and help students organize that knowledge in ways that facilitate application in their reading and writing in the science classroom.

This Literacy Strategies product has four files:

1. Read This First: Includes a product overview, suggestions on using constructed response questions, graphic organizers, and a word wall in your classroom, image credits, and contact information.
2. 5 Constructed Response Questions aligned to NGSS High School Life Science Standards and CCSS in Reading and Writing for grades 9 & 10 with a Teacher’s Guide and 3-point Scoring Rubric for each question.
3. 5 Graphic Organizers to help your students make text connections before, during and after reading and understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework.
4. Word Wall cards of key terms, root words, prefixes, and suffixes to improve academic vocabulary in reading, writing, and speaking.

Take a look at the PREVIEW for more details.

You might also like:

Cells PowerPoint and Notes

Cells Task Cards

Graphic Organizers

Happy Teaching!

Carla Brooks

Science Island