Writing Across the Content AreasMaking a Difference in the 3-5 Classroom
Blanca de la SierraAcademic SpecialistFarine Elementary
Jordan Cowen5th Grade TeacherFarine Elementary
Write and Share
1. Pleases choose three adjectives from the cup. 2. Write a small paragraph using the three
adjectives you chose from the cup to describe yourself or your summer (2-3 sentences max)
3. Once everyone has had to chance to write their paragraph, you will have 2 minutes to share with a partner about your paragraph.
“The value of writing across the curriculum is that it lets the teacher know whether a student is grasping the lesson or not. You can't write about it if you're not getting the lesson.”
-Robyn Rodgers
Admit and Exit Slips
Question to Enter the Text
Question to Exit the Text
3-2-1
3Things that I
Learned
2Things
that Were Surprising
1Question I Still Have
Use this strategy for a math story problem or an expository text.
Anchor Charts
http://chartchums.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/charting-science-writing/
Use color, diagrams, arrows, captions, and highlighting to make anchor charts a visual aid for students.
Math Word Wall
Social Studies Word Wall
Interactive Vocabulary
On a note card illustrate a math vocabulary word. Use illustrations and examples to help understand the term. Sort the terms and identify related terms.
Portable Word WallA-B C-D E-F G-H
I-J K-L M-N O-P
Q-R S-T U-V WXYZ
What Would They Say?
I am so glad that I am the director of Agricultural Education at the Tuskegee Institute. I think I am going to work on many different uses for peanuts.
I need to start a group to help African Americans. I think I will call it NAACP.
Make Your Own Bio Cards
Famous Americans
Captions with Primary Sources
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Some of the first prideful Americans wade through dangerously cold waters trying tirelessly to reach land.
Providing Text evidence and Accountability!
Caption Picture/Text Evidence
First prideful Americans I predict that the people in the picture are prideful Americans because there is a flag, and they are the only visible boat that has their flag flying
Dangerous icy waters The chucks of ice in the water supports my inference that the water is cold and dangerous
Trying tirelessly The people in the picture look like they rowing hard trying to wade through the water.
SPBTS for Expository Texts
SomethingTopic/Subject Plants
PurposeWhat is it?
What does it do?living things
ButWhat if something
changes or happens…?
If you do not give them
water, air and sunlight
ThenWhat will need to happen as a result
of the change or the problem?
they will die
SoOnce again…
give your plants what they need to
live.
SummaryPlants are living things but, if you do not give them water, air and sunlight then they will die. So, give your plants what they need to live.
SFBTS for BiographiesSomeone
Person Helen Keller
Famous ForMain
Accomplishments/Known for…
could not hear, speak, see, or
talk
ButLife’s Struggles/
Problems had to learn to communicate
ThenHow did the person
overcome it all?
she went to school and had help from Anne
Sullivan
SoThey went on to…
helped people that had
disabilities like herself
SummaryHelen Keller could not hear, speak, see or talk but, she had to learn how to communicate. Then she went to school and had help from Anne Sullivan. So she helped people that had disabilities like herself.
Questions Game Pair-Share-SquareQuestions Game•Come up with 1 questions about the text or a picture.•Pair up with a partner and answer each others questions.•Discuss with partner and then consolidate down to 1 question.•Square up with a new partner group and answer all three questions.•As a group of four, come up with one question.•Chart the questions and group those that have common elements. Use these questions for whole group discussions.
What’s the Problem?
The answer is 24. Write a problem to
go with it.
There were 3 plates of chocolate
chip cookies. There were 8
cookies on each plate. How many cookies were on
the 3 plates. Write a number sentence
to show your thinking.
Using a post it note, write a problem to go with an
answer.
Thinking Maps in Math
Question Circle Map
Fractions
What do fractions mean? Can a fraction
be more than 1?
What is the top of the fraction
called? How are fractions and decimals
different?Why are they called fractions?
What happens if you just keep dividing a
whole into more equal parts?
Give students a vocabulary term and have them generate questions to go with that term.
measurement
division
decimal
angle
multiplication
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand." -Chinese Proverb