Planning+Sheet


 * Planning Sheet **


 * Literacy Integration Unit on Wiki: Unit Map **
 * **Topic/theme:**

Fractions: Addition, subtraction, multiplications, and divisions || **Essential Questions supporting topic/theme and literacy development:**

1) What is a fraction and how do they relate to decimals? 2) How can we convert from mixed numbers to improper fractions and reduce to the lowest form? 3) Why do we us the keep, change flip method for division? 4) How do we see fractions in the real world thru word problems? ||


 * **Texts** || **How they support the topic/theme** ||
 * **Painless Fractions:** || Takes a light hearted approach to fractions that helps students not be overwhelmed by them. ||
 * **Math Doesn’t Suck** || Breaks fractions down in to understandable concepts that are easy for the students to grasp ||
 * **McDougal Littell: Math:** || Provides the students with in depth explanations and numerous examples that will help students learn strategies for solving fractions. ||


 * READING || WRITING || SPEAKING || LISTENING || VIEWING ||
 * Students will take turns reading word problems aloud. They will all read the examples that are on the board. They will read in groups, individually and out loud. || Students will be require to write there own word problems. They must be able to clearly put into words the problems that they want the people to understand. Students will write a KWL at the beginning of the unit || Students will be speaking in groups as they dive into solving fraction equations. Students will work together to solve arithmetic and word problems. Popcorn responses will be sought when solving guided practice as a class. || Students will listen as problems are read and explanations given. They will listen to each other as they work together in groups to solve word problems || Students will view examples on the board and the work of others as they solve problems. They will view manipulatives that will help them gain conceptual knowledge. ||

Activities in this unit and how they support each of the following areas of literacy:

** Literacy Integration Unit on Wiki: Unit Map **


 * **Activities and Assessments** || **Skill they are intended to measure**
 * (comprehension, vocabulary, content knowledge, motivation, etc.) ** || **Knowledge they are intended to measure** ||
 * [[file:KWL Outline.doc]] || Content Knowledge || This will be used to gage the students over all knowledge of fractions. This will allow me to gage where the students are at before we start the unit ||
 * [[file:Venn Diagram.doc]] || Content Knowledge || This will help the students recognize the differences and similarities between addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. ||
 * [[file:Fraction Quiz.doc]] || Content Knowledge || This will help me see how much the students retained as they complete the quiz with no notes or assistance. ||
 * [[file:Word Problem Worksheet.doc]] || Content Knowledge || This will show me how well the students can figure out what the operation to do based on what the problem is asking. It will tell me if they know the material enough to recall what they need to do. ||
 * [[file:Fraction Action.doc]] || Content Knowledge || This worksheet will help the students visualize multiplication of fractions. Through the use of grids the students will be able to understand the concept of how fractions work. ||
 * [[file:Unit Test.pdf]] || Content Knowledge || This will give me a final idea of how well the students grasped the concepts over the last two weeks of the unit. ||

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