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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.
Dance a Poem
Fourth-grade students had listened to their teacher read Mary O'Neill's collection of poetry about color, Hailstones and Halibut Bones, and they had written their own color poems. They also choreographed a dance to go with each color poem, which they performed to a tape of their own voice reading the poem with music in the background. Here is Mariko's poem “Silver,” which she danced wearing a silver tutu from her first ballet class dance recital:
WHAT IS SILVER?
Silver feels like a fairy that's gliding through the night.
Silver means peace and quiet.
Silver is a sleeping feeling.
Silver is a merry color like bells ringing.
Rationale
Combining the literature of poetry, writing original poems, choreographing movement and dance to express the poem, and dancing it to ...
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