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Literacy + Math = Creative Connections in the Elementary Classroom
by Jennifer Altieri
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| Grades | K – 6 |
| Type | Book |
| Pages | 216 |
| Published | January 2010 |
| Publisher |  |
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Like many teachers, you may be feeling like there never seems to be enough hours during the school day to teach your students everything they need to learn. Confronted with the ever-increasing pressure to ensure that you are meeting your curricular goals and your students are meeting standards, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all of the requirements that must be met during the school year.
Fortunately, this innovative, groundbreaking text will help you creatively connect two of the most valued and tested content areas in our schools while working within the constraints of your already busy schedule. Gone are the curricular barriers that have long separated elementary math and literacy instruction! Literacy + Math demonstrates how standards from both areas can be simultaneously introduced, understood, and reinforced through engaging lessons. Connecting these content areas—and allowing children to see these connections—will make your instruction twice as likely to stick, foster students’ real-world connections to their learning, and allow you to meet the common instructional goals shared by both areas.
Chapters are filled with hands-on, math-focused activities organized around reading, writing, oral language, and visual literacy skills. Classroom samples from all grade levels K–6 are interspersed throughout the book to demonstrate students’ abilities and learning.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
After reading two math-related books, students investigate their home and school environments to find examples of objects that come in sets and then create their own books on sets.
Grades 1 – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Draw a Math Story: From the Concrete to the Symbolic
Students create math stories by first drawing, then writing, and finally using math symbols to show addition or subtraction.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Solving the Math Curse: Reading and Writing Math Word Problems
Students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills add up as they decipher word problems and use what they’ve learned to solve a crossword puzzle.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Bridging Literature and Mathematics by Visualizing Mathematical Concepts
During interactive read-aloud sessions, students identify how an author conveys mathematical information about animals’ sizes and abilities. They then conduct research projects focusing on the same mathematical concepts.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
Using census data for an example, students use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to understand and solve word problems that refer to tables and other graphics.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Finding Fabulous Financial Literacy Vocabulary With Fancy Nancy
Fancy Nancy teaches fancy words. Did you know Nancy also teaches about fabulous financial literacy concepts? Explore basic economics vocabulary with the entrepreneur extraordinaire!
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Talking, Writing, and Reasoning: Making Thinking Visible with Math Journals
Students explore how their problem-solving strategies work by writing in math journals as they work in small groups to solve a math puzzle with multiple solutions.
