Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Fitting Literacy into my Lessons
My content area is Mathematics, so in class when we discussed what it means to be literate in your field, we said for math: interpreting language and symbols, solving problems, selective reading, vocabulary, and word problems. So, to try to incorporate this into my lessons, a simple and easy thing to do is to have a warm-up word problem on the board when the students enter class. This will not only get their brains to start working right when they come in, but it will also foster literacy. In order to complete the word problems, they will have to read the sentences, and interpret the language of math: forming words into equations and symbols. This will also hone-in (I don't know if I spelled that right) the vocabulary that they should know and should be using when discussing and working with mathematics.
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Until we discussed incorporating literacy into our content areas I never would have been able to link math and literacy except for those long and confusing word problems that I would always get wrong!
That would be a really great way to incorporate literacy into a math class. Word problems in math class will also help students in their science classes because being able to pick out the information you need is a skill a lot of people have a hred time with.
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