By Laura Goods
03/24/2026 – TEACH Magazine
Most of the information about bees came from scientific articles I found online. I would pour over the academic texts at night in order to simplify them for my students, who were always excited to read these articles together the next day. They would then split off into their differentiated reading groups to re-read the material and discuss.
Even though we hadn’t yet been trained on the Science of Reading when I taught the bee unit, it has since become the guiding light for teaching literacy. Its strategies have been tried, tested, studied, and proven. What I learned after teaching the bee unit is that the many of the ways I made it accessible were anchored in Science of Reading principles. Here’s how….Read more of Laura Goods article in TEACH Magazine here.