1. Amanda Solarsh & Gina Tesoriero Simon Baruch Middle School New York City Department of Education Grades 6-8 This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com Session #2198

2. Paired Passages support literacy 0 Requires students to read, analyze, and comprehend two related texts and then use the information gathered from the texts to respond to a writing prompt by synthesizing the information in both texts This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

3. View Sample Paired Passage Prompts Student supportsTeacher Toolkit Create your own paired passage prompt!

4. 0 “A literate citizen should be able to evaluate the quality of scientific information on the basis of its source and the methods used to generate it. Scientific literacy also implies the capacity to pose and evaluate arguments based on evidence and to apply conclusions from such arguments appropriately.” (National Science Education Standards, page 22) 0 *Scientific texts can be especially challenging for students because they often include figures, tables, data, and complex vocabulary that is lacking in other texts (Carol Lee and Anika Spratley 2009) 0 *Students need to develop strategies to comprehend and analyze complex science issues like global warming for example to develop critically literate skills, like real scientists ( Maria Grant and Diane Lapp 2011) This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com SCIENCE LITERACY RESEARCH

5. PAIRED PASSAGES Hitting the top of Blooms Taxonomy! This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

11. Strategies for reading and writing Supporting students as they engage with challenging texts and writing prompts This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

12. Paraphrasing 0 Skill used by proficient readers to support comprehension 0 “In the head” strategy that can later be used to support annotations 0 Requires direct modeling and instruction 0 Paraphrasing ≠ Summarizing This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

13. Annotate Text

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15. Text Coding This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

16. Text Coding This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

17. Reading with a guiding question This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com 0 When the text contains a lot of information that is not directly relevant to the students’ purpose for reading. 0 When students are reading to find evidence to support a scientific explanation. 0 Can be used once or multiple times (close reading) Example(s) *What evidence do scientists have to predict future earthquakes? *What are the disadvantages of using solar power?

18. Writing Supports This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

19. Teacher Tool Kit This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

20. Steps to developing paired passage task This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

21. Selecting Texts This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com 0 Electronic Sources 0 Current Events/News Articles (online) 0 Print Sources 0 More traditional text/information *Lexile Levels and Text Complexity need to be considered

22. Task Development Tool This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

23. Questions? This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

24. Create your own paired passage prompt Use the Task Development Tool as a guide This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com

25. Amanda Solarsh & Gina Tesoriero Simon Baruch Middle School New York City Department of Education Grades 6-8 This presentation and other resources can be found at STEMeducators.weebly.com