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Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based rationale, relevant content standards, suggested books, reader-response questions and prompts, assessment ideas, examples of how to adapt the strategy for different grade levels (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8), and ideas for differentiating instruction for English language learners and struggling students. Throughout the book, student work samples and classroom vignettes bring the content to life.
Mathematics
What Research Has to Say about Literature-Based Teaching and Mathematics
The new national standards in mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 2000) reflect a shift of focus in mathematics instruction beyond mathematics as computation toward mathematics as “conceptualization, description, and explanation” of the powerful ideas associated with mathematical processes (Lesh & English, 2005). This current view of mathematics education is broad enough to include making connections among language, literacy, and literature in the K through 8 classroom.
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2000) standards include five content standards for numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis and probability, but they also include process standards for problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation. These process standards reflect a view ...
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