Strategy Guides

A six-page strategy guide is available for each Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading student book. These strategies support students in becoming better readers and writers; they help students read science texts with greater understanding, learn and use new vocabulary, and discuss important ideas about the natural world and the nature of science. Many of these strategies can be used with multiple titles in the Seeds/Roots series.

Note, printed hardcopy Strategy Guides can also be purchased for $6.95 each. Simply click the 'Order' button for the Student Book to see ordering information for the Strategy Guides.

Soil Habitats
Strategy Student Book
Using Discourse Routines with Science Texts Into the Soil
Using the Cognates Strategy Walk in the Woods
Connecting Science Words and Everyday Words What Are Roots?
Teaching About the Nature of Science Talking with a Habitat Scientist
Teaching Text Structure Handbook of Forest Floor Animals
Using Text Features Earthworms Underground
Taking Notes Based on Observations My Nature Notebook
Making Sense of Data in Science Texts Snail Investigations
Using Discourse Circles Without Soil
Shoreline Science
Strategy Student Book
Teaching Vocabulary with Science Texts Beach Postcards
Teaching Concept Mapping What Belongs on a Beach?
Teaching Scientific Explanations Gary's Sand Journal
Interpreting Visual Representations What's Stronger? The Forces That Cause Erosion
Using Text Features What Lives on a Sandy Beach?
Teaching About Multiple Meaning Words My Sea Otter Report
Searching for Information in Science Texts Handbook of Sandy Beach Organisms
Teaching Text Structure The Black Tide
Teaching About the Nature of Science Shoreline Scientist
Designing Mixtures
Strategy Student Book
Using Discourse Circles What If Rain Boots Were Made of Paper?
Using Anticipation Guides Solving Dissolving
Teaching Scientific Explanations Handbook of Interesting Ingredients
Teaching Text Structure Jelly Bean Scientist
Teaching About the Nature of Science Jess Makes Hair Gel
Gravity and Magnetism
Strategy Student Book
Interpreting Visual Representations Forces
Making Sense of Data in Science Texts What My Sister Taught Me About Magnets
Using Anticipation Guides Gravity Is Everywhere
Teaching Concept Mapping Mystery Forces
Variation and Adaptation
Strategy Student Book
Teaching Scientific Comparison Writing Blue Whales and Buttercups
Using Discourse Circles The Code
Using Visual Evidence to Make Inferences Mystery Mouths
Teaching About the Nature and Practices of Science Evidence from the Past
Digestion and Body Systems
Strategy Guide Student Book
Analyzing Part-to-Whole Relationships Systems
Teaching About the Nature and Practices of Science Secrets of the Stomach
Teaching Process Description Writing Voyage of a Cracker
Searching for Information in Science Texts Handbook of Body Systems
Making Sense of Data in Science Texts What's the Diagnosis
Light Energy
Strategy Guide Student Book
Teaching About Idioms Can You See in the Dark?
Teaching Summary Writing The Speed of Light
Teaching About the Nature of Science Why Do Scientists Disagree?
Using Discourse Routines with Science Texts I See What You Mean
Searching for Information in Science Texts Handbook of Light Interactions
Teaching Scientific Explanation Writing Light Strikes!
Teaching Vocabulary with Science Texts Cameras, Eyes, and Glasses
Teaching Concept Mapping It's All Energy
Interpreting Visual Representations Sunlight and Showers
Weather and Water
Strategy Guide Student Book
Teaching About the Nature of Science Tornado! A Meteorologist and Her Prediction
Teaching About Multiple Meaning Words Falling Through the Atmosphere
Gathering Information from Science Texts Weather Encyclopedia
Teaching Text Structure Water in the Desert
Using the Cognates Strategy Drinking Cleopatra's Tears
Connecting Science and Everyday Words Go With the Flow: Making Models of Streams
Taking Notes Based on Observations Sky Notebook
Using Text Features Wet Weather Handbook
Making Sense of Data in Science Texts What's Going On With the Weather?
Models of Matter
Strategy Guide Student Book
Teaching Summary Writing Made of Matter
Using Roundtable Discussions Break It Down: How Scientists Separate Mixtures
Interpreting Visual Representations Phase Change at Extremes
Teaching About How Scientists Make Inferences Science You Can’t See
Chemical Changes
Strategy Guide Student Book
Teaching Scientific Explanation Writing Chemical Reactions Everywhere
Posing Investigation Questions Handbook of Chemical Investigations
Teaching Text Structure What Happens to the Atoms?
Teaching Procedural Writing Bursting Bubbles: The Story of an Improved Investigation
Promoting Word Consciousness Communicating Chemistry