Tag Archives: Integrating Instruction

Putting it All Together–Aligning Your Curricula

You know what language arts skills you’re going to teach. You know what genre studies you want to use to help teach these skills. You know what materials you already have to support teaching these skills. Now you may like … Continue reading

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Putting it All Together–Genre Studies

Now that you have listed the Language Arts Standards for the year, you are ready to pull together all the materials you currently have that will support your language arts instruction.  This is a key part of planning for integration, … Continue reading

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Integrating Instruction: Language Arts Standards

After you have listed out the science and social studies themes for the year and organized them in a way that allows the content to build upon itself, the next step is to tackle language arts. Using your district’s, state’s, … Continue reading

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Integrating Instruction: Organizing Themes

Now that you can see all the themes you’ll be working with, you can organize them in a way that is supportive and cumulative.  This example shows nine themes for the year (themes are underlined and in bold type) for … Continue reading

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Project Based Learning in Thematic Instruction

Thematic teaching can be very time-consuming, messy, and active, but the rewards so far outstrip the demands IMO I don’t like to teach any other way.  It’s just so much fun! Because this teaching method gives you enough time to … Continue reading

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What is Thematic Teaching?

For me thematic teaching is all about engagement and thinking.  Practically there are a ton of reasons why this style of instruction makes sense, but for me, watching children take charge of their learning, seeing them playing at recess what … Continue reading

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