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