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Writing Across the Content Areas Making a Difference in the 3-5 Classroom. Blanca de la Sierra Academic Specialist Farine Elementary. Jordan Cowen 5 th Grade Teacher Farine Elementary. Write and Share. Pleases choose three adjectives from the cup.
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Writing Across the Content AreasMaking a Difference in the 3-5 Classroom Blanca de la Sierra Academic Specialist Farine Elementary Jordan Cowen 5th Grade Teacher Farine Elementary
Write and Share • Pleases choose three adjectives from the cup. • Write a small paragraph using the three adjectives you chose from the cup to describe yourself or your summer (2-3 sentences max) • 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 3 Things that I Learned 2 Things that Were Surprising 1 Question I Still Have Use this strategy for a math story problem or an expository text.
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Use color, diagrams, arrows, captions, and highlighting to make anchor charts a visual aid for students.
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.
I need to start a group • to help African Americans. I think I • will call it NAACP. • 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. What Would They Say?
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.
SPBTS for Expository Texts Summary Plants 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.
Summary Helen 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. SFBTS for Biographies
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. What’s the Problem? Using a post it note, write a problem to go with an answer.
multiplication measurement What happens if you just keep dividing a whole into more equal parts? Question Circle Map division What do fractions mean? Can a fraction be more than 1? Fractions angle What is the top of the fraction called? How are fractions and decimals different? Why are they called fractions? Give students a vocabulary term and have them generate questions to go with that term. decimal
"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand." -Chinese Proverb