Growing Language Through Science offers a model for contextualizing language and promoting academic success for all students, particularly English learners in the K-5 science classroom, through a highly effective approach that integrates inquiry-based science lessons with language rich hand-on experiences. You’ll find A wealth of instructional tools to support and engage students, with links to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Presentation and assessment strategies that accommodate students’ diverse needs Ready-to-use templates and illustrations to enrich the textual discussion Field-tested teaching strategies framed in the 5Es used in monolingual and bilingual classrooms.

Setting the stage for growing language through science -- Effective science teaching and learning : bridging research and -- Practice -- Enhancing science teaching and learning through inquiry and the 5es -- The power of questions -- Doing science -- Navigating through the practices, crosscutting concepts, and core -- Science ideas : physical sciences and earth science and space sciences -- Life sciences across the grades -- Games : a context for meaningful science learning and -- School-to-home science connection -- How do we know that students know? .