revised K-4 Science Standards Topic Arrangement

Teaching Science through English – a CLIL approach 4 The 4Cs of CLIL It is helpful to think of Coyle’s 4Cs of CLIL for planning lessons (Coyle, 1999) 1 Content: What is the science topic? e g plants 2 Communication: What science language will learners communicate during the lesson? e g the

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SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS - MIT

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the words and their definitions To many English-speaking students science words seem like a new language, and to English language learners, these words are a new language The job of science education is to teach students how to use thematic patterns of science to communicate meanings, “talking science” to solve problems in writing or

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science,” we’ve chosen two of the SEPs around which to center our examples of meaning-making in science and in English The eight SEPs are shown below, and the two on which we’ll focus are highlighted The Science and Engineering Practices 1 Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 2 Developing and using