Developing Science Language for Living Things With 10-11 Year Olds

Each fully photocopiable book in the DEVELOPING SCIENCE LANGUAGE series will be split into around ten 6-8 page 'units', each hitting a significant science curriculum topic. Content will include aspects of all the UK curricula, with references indicating which topics occur in which documentation. Each unit will comprise of: -a piece of information text aimed at 6 year olds, with key vocabularly highlighted -two comprehension activities based on the text (one activity differentiated at two levels) -one or more fun activities to reinforce the key words, such as completing a word search or labelling a diagram. 'DSL:Living Things 10-11' will address the 'biology'topics covered by the UK curricula at KS2/P4-7, using the QCA 'Science Scheme of Work' units for Y5 and Y6 as a more detailed guide. To this will be added appropriate content from the other UK science curriculum documents, in particular the new Scottish 5-14 guidelines on Environmental Studies. Photocopiable science information texts appropriate to target age group. Differentiated comprehensions-credible literacy Fully-photocopiable activities to develop science literacy: comprehension tasks and word games.;Highlights and teaches key science vocabulary in context.