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- Title
Using Literature to Teach Measurement.
- Authors
Bintz, William P.; Moore, Sara D.; Wright, Pam; Dempsey, Lyndsie
- Abstract
This article reports on one instructional lesson that integrates literacy and mathematics. Specifically, it describes a lesson conducted in a fourth-grade classroom that integrates reading, writing, drawing, and literature to teach linear measurement to the inch and fractional measurement. The article begins with a rationale for integrating literacy and mathematics and shares a collection of literature that is based on major mathematical content strands according to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Then, the authors describe research that supports using literature to teach measurement and identify mathematics and literacy standards that are embedded in this lesson, describe materials and procedures used, and share samples of student work that resulted. The article ends with lessons learned from the experience.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of measurement; ELEMENTARY education; INTERDISCIPLINARY education; MATHEMATICS &; literature; MATHEMATICS education (Elementary); MATHEMATICS teachers; EDUCATIONAL standards; FOURTH grade (Education)
- Publication
Reading Teacher, 2011, Vol 65, Issue 1, p58
- ISSN
0034-0561
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1598/RT.65.1.8