Literacy+Resources

Science teachers can use science content (science writing tasks, inquiry activities, and reading resources) to help students develop and strengthen their literacy skills. For teachers in states/districts adopting the Common Core State Standards, this is becoming a daily reality. All teachers in each building should help their students strengthen their reading, writing, speaking, and quantitative literacy skills. Here are a few resources that teachers might find helpful. I hope this page grows as more pre-service and in-service teachers find materials and lessons to share with their colleagues!

Resources to help identify CCSS that you can address through reading in the sciences: read this Scholastic article. []

**__Professional Development Organizations__**

 * =====You can't find a better resource than the __National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)__ for outstanding science reading materials for students in grades K-12. They team up with the Children's Book Council each year and put together a list of books that they both rank as excellent resources.=====
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 * Within the NSTA website you will also find trade books categorized by content area. For example,
 * [|http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/ostb2011.aspx]
 * the __American Library Association__ is a great resource. You will have to do searches within this website to find titles.
 * here are several resources to teach science through poetry:
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 * Some teachers, schools, school districts, and science teacher education programs have disseminated their own lists of science books.
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A few **__Publishers__** have strong collections of both fiction and non-fiction science books.
 * National Geographic Society
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 * HarperCollins Children's book has CCSS resources:
 * [|http://www.readcommoncore.com/browse?keyword=science&bisac_heading=combined&order=relevance]
 * Usborne:
 * [|http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/science.aspx?cat=1&area=S]
 * Dorling Kindersly:
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 * Sylvan Dell Publishers:
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 * __Science Resource Companies__** may have literacy resources.
 * Carolina Biologicals has a vast array of resources for K-12 science and math educators
 * [|http://www.carolina.com/catalog/search-results.jsp?question=trade%20books%20children&trail=SRCH%3Atrade+books+children%3A7002%3A10840%3A4016%3ABooks+and+Manuals]
 * Pitsco is usually where teachers can find great physical science resources (like Legos!), but they do a few (not a lot) of reading materials. Most of the resources are for teachers, but there are some books that include reading materials for students. For example, here are K-2 resources:[|Pitsco]
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Remember that **__Electronic/Media Resources__** are also excellent resources to teach literacy
 * PBS Learning Media
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 * Reading Rockets is an organization supported by WETA (a PBS station in Washington, D.C.)
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Is there a resource you think MUST be included here? Please email me (Meena.Balgopal@colostate.edu) so I can review it and add it to this list.