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Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy

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A lesson plan for grades K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics

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In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to shapes through appropriate children’s books and many different learning modalities. They then learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes they locate, and reflect, in writing, on the process. This lesson provides student reproducibles and a student friendly story website.

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 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
  • Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
    • Objective 5.03: Write all upper and lower case letters of the alphabet, using correct letter formation.

Grade 2

  • Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
    • Objective 5.01: Spell correctly using:
      • previously studied words.
      • spelling patterns.
      • analysis of sounds to represent all the sounds in a word in one's own writing.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
    • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
  • Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
    • Objective 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
      • representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
      • writing most letters of the alphabet.
      • analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
    • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.
    • Objective 3.02: Identify, build, and name cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms.
    • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
    • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw, and name triangles, rectangles, and circles; identify, build, and name spheres and cubes.
    • Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).