Giant story problems: Reading comprehension through math problem solving
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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics
This ReadWriteThink activity focuses on reading comprehension skills as they apply to mathematics story problems, as well as on written and verbal mathematics communication skills. Students use drawings, equations, and written responses to solve single story problems with enlarged print. The end product of this activity is a series of poster-size story problems that can serve as models for later problem-solving work.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 2
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, and model whole numbers through 99 and compute with whole numbers.
- Objective 1.04: Create, model, and solve problems that use addition, subtraction, and fair shares (between two or three).
Grade 2
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with whole numbers through 999.
- Objective 1.03: Create, model, and solve problems that involve addition, subtraction, equal grouping, and division into halves, thirds, and fourths (record in fraction form).
- Objective 1.05: Create and solve problems using strategies such as modeling, composing and decomposing quantities, using doubles, and making tens and hundreds.
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will recognize, model, and write whole numbers through 30.
- Objective 1.03: Solve problems and share solutions to problems in small groups.
