Literacy+Integration


 * THEME ** : SUMMER

Nathalie Coward Ingri Del Real Kimberly Hollis Becki Kelly Emily Malanoski AnnMarie Ratka Gail Shropshire**
 * GROUP MEMBERS ** **Shawnell Barlow

**FOCUS TOPIC: LITERACY INTEGRATION **



**Ways to incorporate vocabulary work in your unit: **

//**SCIENCE VOCABULARY FOCUS STRATEGIES:**//  **Resources ** Georgia Science Textbook (2008) Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Schuette, S.L. (2007). __Let's look at summer__. Capstone Press. Mankato, Minnesota. Richek, M. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher 58(5), 414-423. 
 * Key Vocabulary: summer, sunny, mates, axis, rotates, temperature, season, warm, sun, Earth, hot, thermometer, shade, Farenheit, Celsius, ocean, humid, weather, degrees, water cycle, melting, frozen BONUS WORDS: swim, picnic, ice cream
 * Synonyms and Antonyms of summer words
 * Summer Science charades
 * Dress for summer time dolls: paper cut-out dolls that studnets can dress and label with key vocabulary words
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Vocabulary matching memory game
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Word Wall game Trivia ex: I'm looking for a word that measures how hot or cold something is..."
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Use key vocabulary words to write in their summer science journals
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Create a song about summer using at least 5 vocabulary words in a cooperative group
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Choose an MI to demonstrate summer
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Summer science experiments that make use of key vocabulary words
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Semantic Impressions Activity
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 120%; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Expert Cards Activities

<span style="font-size: 150%; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;">**<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Ways to incorporate reading and children's literature in your unit: **

<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//**Social Studies Literacy Incorporation Strategies:**//
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Social studies related reader's theatre
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Research Book center with related themed books
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Create a book about someone or an important event
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Play a Jeopardy game where students have to read and understand key vocabulary to answer questions
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Create take home book packs with activities to incorporate parents in the learning process
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Library list for students to pick up at their local library

<span style="font-size: 110%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**Resources:**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> [|http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/ RTE23.html] [|http://www. timelessteacherstuff.com/ readerstheater/America.pdf] [|http://www. timelessteacherstuff.com/ OtherLanguageMaterials/ PaulRevereRide.html] [|http://poetry.eserver.org/ paul-revere.html]

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;">**<span style="font-size: 130%; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Ways to incorporate writing in your unit: **

//**<span style="font-size: 144%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Using Literature in the Mathematics Classroom (emphasizing writing) **// <span style="font-size: 130%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">**Resources:** <span style="display: block; font-size: 110%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">Murphy, S. (1998). Lemonade for sale. New York: Harper Collins. <span style="display: block; font-size: 110%; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: left;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Other Resources: ** Google Image Ryan, P.M. (2003). Hello Ocean. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing. Lies B. (2006). Bats at the Beach. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Understanding and writing fractions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Counting change
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Writing number sentences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Writing word problems
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Writing recipes
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Graphing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Using tally marks for survey taste test
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Writing number sequences
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Writing inequality sentencesUnderstanding and writing fractions