How Do I Integrate Common Core Literacy into an NGSS Classroom?

Teaching Channel Guide to
Next Generation Science Standards

Created in collaboration with our partners at

AMNH designed and implemented a series of professional development workshops that showed teachers how to integrate literacy strategies into their science instruction.

The videos feature teachers who have experienced this professional development at the Museum. These videos capture teachers in their actual classrooms, utilizing literacy strategies within their science lessons. The strategies can be applied to any science content area.

Summarizing in Science

Summarizing text helps readers make meaning of complex science material, as demonstrated in this middle school classroom.

Vocabulary Instruction

Vocabulary terms found in complex science texts can present major obstacles for students, but teachers can make decisions ahead of time that will help facilitate student comprehension.

Want to learn more? Check out this course from our sister company, Learners Edge. 5065: Vocabulary Instruction and Word Learning for Secondary Content Areas. This course offers a review of research and applicable ready-to-us strategies to support vocabulary instruction using words carefully selected from existing curriculum and standards in any content area.

Writing a Scientific Explanation

A writing scaffold, called the Explanation Tool, can help students in science classrooms make sense of natural phenomena and develop explanations for those phenomena.