Using Literature Activities To Teach Content Areas To Emergent Readers.Mildred R. Donoghue. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2001. 150 pp. If curriculum and assessment mandates addressing literacy skill development are interfering with the amount of time left to teach the content areas of math, science, and social studies, then this book is exactly what teachers need in their professional libraries. The author, who is on the faculty at California State University Enrollment  at Fullerton, has
provided a teacher-friendly means for writing engaging,
interdisciplinary lesson plans that incorporate literature into all the
elementary content areas.
This book is organized into four sections. The first section defines emergent emergent /emer·gent/ (e-mer´jent) 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. pertaining to an emergency. emergent 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. coming on suddenly. literacy and describes the way children learn. It also explains how literature can be an effective vehicle for providing a thorough understanding of content areas. The next three sections explore the science, math, and social studies content areas. Each section provides state and national content standards, suggestions for assessment, detailed descriptions of topics covered, and suggested activities. More than 500 literature activities are offered. They promote understanding and integration of all content areas, and are specially designed to meet the developmental needs and interests of emergent readers in kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be through 3rd grade. These activities are planned around 125 fiction and nonfiction books, whose titles will be familiar to classroom teachers. Each lesson is designed so that the only necessary reading is done aloud by the classroom teacher or aide, and is followed by several suggestions for engaging activities to integrate other content areas. Let the hungry family from Pigs Will Be Pigs help children dig into Verb 1. dig into - examine physically with or as if with a probe; "probe an anthill" poke into, probe penetrate, perforate - pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest" that unit on money. Don't hesitate to turn to Machines at Work when introducing that mystifying mys·ti·fy tr.v. mys·ti·fied, mys·ti·fy·ing, mys·ti·fies 1. To confuse or puzzle mentally. See Synonyms at puzzle. 2. To make obscure or mysterious. simple machines unit. Make geography come alive for students when, by reading Nine for California, they follow the trail taken by the family in the story. Take the frustration out of lesson planning and make the most of every language arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. period with the help of this valuable resource. Reviewed by Dawn W. Dubbs, Academic Support Teacher, Calypso Calypso, in Greek mythology Calypso (kəlĭp`sō), nymph, daughter of Atlas, in Homer's Odyssey. She lived on the island of Ogygia and there entertained Odysseus for seven years. and Clearview Schools, Bethlehem, PA |
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