Exploring sets through math-related book pairs
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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics
This ReadWriteThink lesson integrates reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing mathematical ideas while simultaneously strengthening home-school communication. The two math-related books used give real-world contexts to the strategy of grouping objects to be counted and follow predictable formats that support emerging readers. After reading each of the books, students explore their school and home environments to find and represent their own examples of sets. The culminating activity is a collaborative class book of sets. This lesson incorporates a variety of interactive student activities.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
- Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
- clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
- using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
- engaging in more extended oral discussions.
- producing written products.
- completing graphic organizers.
- Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
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 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 99.
- Connect the model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
- Use efficient strategies to count the number of objects in a set.
- Read and write numbers.
- Compare and order sets and numbers.
- Build understanding of place value (ones, tens).
- Estimate quantities fewer than or equal to 100.
- Recognize equivalence in sets and numbers 1-99.
- Objective 1.02: Use groupings of 2's, 5's, and 10's with models and pictures to count collections of objects.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 99.
Grade 2
- Goal 4: Data Analysis and Probability - The learner will understand and use data and simple probability concepts.
- Objective 4.01: Collect, organize, describe and display data using Venn diagrams (three sets) and pictographs where symbols represent multiple units (2's, 5's, 10's).
Kindergarten
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will recognize, model, and write whole numbers through 30.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
- Connect model, number word (orally), and number, using a variety of representations.
- Count objects in a set.
- Read and write numerals.
- Compare and order sets and numbers.
- Use ordinals (1st-10th).
- Estimate quantities fewer than or equal to 10.
- Recognize equivalence in sets and numbers 1-10.
- Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 30.
