Science+Language℠ K-5 Accelerates Concept Mastery
Science+Language K-5 helps students acquire complex science concepts by providing language scaffolds, increasing student engagement, and by delivering instructional tools that make teachers more effective with content and language integration. Three 12-week controlled study phases found that elementary students who used Speak Agent 30+ minutes per week increased their rate of science concept mastery by 210%.
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Word Gallery is a great way to introduce new science concepts to your class. It works well on a projector or screen sharing in Zoom. Or, students can use it as a digital word wall!
Speaking activities like My Voice encourage students to verbalize science terms and concepts and to explain processes, patterns, or conclusions.
Science reading passages in Speak Agent, such as this Read Along, serve as a focal point for classroom discourse. All student responses are captured in the digital portfolio.
The digital portfolio stores open-ended responses, writing samples, voice recordings, and creative projects.
Diagram It! provides opportunities to review, label, and explain diagrams in writing or recorded speech. Writing and speaking activities in Speak Agent capture student work samples in a digital portfolio, providing actionable data.
Story-based activities like Tall Tales use context clues to develop comprehension of the material.
Sentence processing activities like Scrambled Sentences build comprehension by breaking scientific explanations and stories into manageable chunks that students can manipulate.
Vocab Lab presents a short passage that uses a target scientific term in a real-world context. Next, students combine basic words they have already learned to define the target term.
Modules and Standards
Science+Language K-5 consists of easy-to-implement modules that can be aligned to your scope, sequence, and pacing.
Program Support
Speak Agent embeds academic language supports into your Tier 1 instruction to meet the needs of all students. Marginalized learners, including multilingual, Title I, and students with learning differences, particularly benefit from Speak Agent's research-based, multimodal instructional strategies. These provide learning scaffolds that help students make connections to background knowledge, master complex concepts, and acquire the expressive language needed to communicate both verbally and in writing with precision and confidence.