Build Essential Background Knowledge and Academic Vocabulary with Standards-Based Science Content at Multiple Reading Levels

Each ConceptLinks® science topic is presented through four leveled texts that spiral standards-based content from book to book, providing increasingly challenging concepts, academic vocabulary, and text load. The first level of the Student Books, the blue level, covers core objectives related to the science topic. Each additional level covers the concepts of the previous level and develops additional ideas. This spiraled approach, paired with leveled texts, means that all students can begin work at the appropriate level and make steady progress toward grade-level competencies.

Develop Strategic Learners through Powerful Reading Comprehension Strategies and Language Skills

Each ConceptLinks® module focuses on the skills, strategies, and content students need to be successful. Explicit, scaffolded instruction in reading comprehension strategies, language skills, and science process skills is integrated with standards-based science content to help students become strong, strategic readers while they build their understanding of grade-level science content.

Choose ConceptLinks® to GIve All Your Students the Content Literacy Skills They Need to Advance and Succeed 

• Direct instruction of reading comprehension strategies and language development skills that align with English/Language Arts and English/Language Development standards
• Standards-based science content that is differentiated and scaffolded to ensure that every student has access to grade-level content at appropriate language levels
• Explicit instruction in academic vocabulary
• Opportunities for students to build background knowledge and connect their personal experiences to academic concepts
• Differentiated Student Books at four reading levels (grades 2, 3, 4 and 5) with middle grades academic content that spirals from book to book
• Content supported by scaffolded, nonfiction text features plus striking visuals and on-page definitions of academic vocabulary
• Multiple opportunities for test-taking practice

“The books are exceptional. They are very student friendly, extremely interesting to the students, and integrate science and reading beautifully ....The students really enjoyed working with the module--and they all improved on the posttest, so I feel great about that.”

Katie Boyd
Jacox Elementary School
Norfolk, VA

“The student books are amazing. The four levels gave all students an opportunity to learn a core concept and build on that concept.”

Radistina Valchev
Thomas Middle School
Arlington Heights, IL