Integrating the Strategies Across the Curriculum

1. Integrating the Strategies Across the Curriculum By Kila Niblett Bach

2. The Rainforest 4th Grade • http://www.csci3002.dnagardner.com/class/48/Kila%20Niblett-Bach%20Rainforest%204th%20Grade/index.html

3. Info on strategies with examples: • http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/index.html • Great for teachers and students • Videos • Lessons • Games

4. What Are The Strategies 4th Graders Should Know? • How do I teach these in all of the subjects? • What about a thematic unit? • Is it possible to integrate literature into the other subjects?

5. Reading • List of books from the Justin Public Library. • All on the 4th grade reading level • All about the rainforest • Each genre is on this list

6. Books Over the Rainforest • A Walk in the Rainforest by Kristin Joy Pratt Published by: Dawn Publications in 1992 • The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry Published by: Harcourt Children’s Books in 1990 • At Home In the Rainforest by Diane Willow Published by Sanval in 1999 • Rainforest Secrets by Arthur Doros Published by Scholastic in 1999 • Rain, Rain Rainforest by Brenda Z. Guiberson Published by: Henry Holt and Co. in 2004 • Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild About Rainforests by Kathy Ross Published by: Millbrook Press in 1997 • Rainforests: An activity Guide For Ages 6-9 by Nancy Castaldo Published by: Chicago Review Press in 2003  • The Encyclopedia of Rainforests by Diane Jukofsky Published by: Greenwood Publishing Group in 2001 •  Learn About: Rainforests by Jen Green Published by: Lorenz books in 2008 Rainforest Plants by Pamela Dell Published by: Capstone Press in 2005  • Flashy Fantastic Rainforest Frogs by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Published by: Walker Books for Young Readers in 1999 • The Search For Cures From The Rain Forest by Carol Ballard Published by: Gareth Stevens Publishing in 2005 • Journey into the Rainforest by Tim Knight Published by: Oxford University Press in 2001  • Songs of the Forest: Rainforest poems by Edwin Wilson Published by: Hale and Iremonger in 1990  • The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell Published by: Sylvan Dell Publishing in 2007  • Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme by Marianne Berkes Published by: Dawn Publications in 2007  • Forests and Jungles by Gail Radley Published by: Lerner Publishing Group in 2001 • The Shaman’s Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin Published by: Sandpiper in 2001 • Komodo! – by Peter Sis Published by: Green Willow Books in 1993 •  The Vanishing Rainforest by Richard Platt Published by: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books in 2004

7. Writing • Write a letter to The Man with the Axe. • Integrate The Great Kapok Tree with a writing/science lesson. • Questioning Strategy

8. Math • Use Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen. • Have students determine the height of a tree activity. • Make graphs &charts • Summarizing and Synthesize

9. Science • There are so many lessons that you can do with this subject and texts. • Visualizing and Inferring Komodo Dragons Lesson • Komodo by Peter Sis (fiction)

10. Social Studies • Rainforest Plants by Pamela Dell • Determining and questioning • What products come from the rainforests? Do you use them? What will happen if the rainforest go away? Why does Dell want you to know about the products?

11. Music and Art • Make a mural of the rainforest • Listen to sounds of the rainforest • Visualize and Infer • The Shaman's Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin • Uses visualizing and determining strategy.

12. Have Fun and Use Your Strategies!!