Nonlinguistic Strategies

Reading
Instructional Strategy: nonlinguistic – kinesthetic activity

Kinesthetic learners typically learn best by doing. They are naturally good at physical activities like sports and dance. They enjoy learning through hands-on methods. They typically like how-to guides and action-adventure stories.

Days 1-3
Objectives: The student will express the feeling of poem through kinesthetic activity

Links to Standards: LA 4.1.6a

Anticipatory Set: Try the classes’ talents at playing a few rounds of Charades. Then explain that April is poetry month. Challenge the students to find poems that could easily be reenacted.
Assessment: The student will be able to nonverbally express the meaning of a poem or short reading.

Learning Connections: Butterfly poetry gives students an opportunity to explore body movements while being expressive non-verbally. Choose a student who loves drama and is not inhibited in actions. Read the poem as the student performs the poem.

“Butterfly, Butterfly” by Miriam Drury
Butterfly, butterfly, open your wings,
Fly to the garden while everyone sings;
Smell the pink roses that grow by the wall,
Taste the nice honey in hollyhocks tall;
Butterfly, butterfly, home is the best.
Fold your wings gently and rest.

Learning Activities or Tasks: Student will choose a poem to be read by a partner as he/she interprets the meaning and theme of the poem through dramatic actions.

Teaching Strategies: teacher modeling, introduction, partner learning

Adaptations/Modifications/Enrichment: This would be a great activity for an enhanced podcast or imovie.

Materials & Resources: poetry books

Lesson Evaluation & Reflection: To be completed when lesson has concluded.
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Instructional Strategy: nonlinguistic
Reading
Day 1-31: Fourth grade reading studies various genres. This is the year in school where the reading shifts to mostly nonfiction reading selections. This homework assignment is presented at the beginning of January. Students have all of January to complete the project. Timelines and speeches are shared on the last day of the month

Objectives: The student will read a biography at grade level, complete an “Important Poem”, produce a timeline, and create a report about the famous person-giving the report in first person format and dressing in the appropriate style. Each student will follow the design designated on the monthly book project website and be evaluated using the rubric provided.

Links to Standards: LA 4.3.1 (Marco Polo visited last school year)

Anticipatory Set: Who are your heroes? What makes them a hero? What genre would we read to find out more about your hero?

Assessment: The rubric from my website is used to evaluate the project. I also use this assignment to assess the rating the student will receive for meeting the state standard.

Learning Connections: The class has read 2-3 reading selections that are biographical in the reading series. Using the book, Amelia Earhart: A Legend in Flight, from www.readinga-z.com, I share with the students the life of this famous aviator. We make a timeline, poem, and brainstorm what it would look like to arrive in class looking like this famous person.
Learning Activities or Tasks: Students will select a biography and complete the timeline in a timely manner. This is a homework assignment but supplies may be taken home to complete it.
Teaching Strategies: research, teacher modeling, discussion

Adaptations/Modifications/Enrichment: Podcasts and or imovie to record the final project - Another great way to share with the world.

Materials & Resources: biographies, chart paper, supplies as needed

Lesson Evaluation & Reflection: To be completed when lesson has concluded.

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Instructional Strategy: nonlinguistic
Math-place value
1day activity
Objectives: The student will relate one million to hundreds and thousands

Links to Standards: math 4.1.2 numeration/number sense

Anticipatory Set: Do you think you could read 1,000,000 words in one day? Let’s find out.

Assessment: The student will make a chart estimating how groups of 100 words are on the front page of a newspaper.

How many groups of 100 words are on the page?
How many pages to read 1,000 words?
How many pages to read 10,000 words?
How many pages to read 100,000 words?
How many pages to read 1,000,000 words?


Learning Connections: Place value is one of the most important math ideas in elementary school. Students will benefit from grouping concrete materials into groups of a hundred and solving problems that call for estimating large numbers of things.

Learning Activities or Tasks: The student will take a newspaper and count 100 words and then circle the words.

Teaching Strategies: Demonstration, discussion

Adaptations/Modifications: online help/

Enrichment: MegaPenny Project

*How many watermelons would it take to get a million seeds?

Materials & Resources: newspapers, chart, red pen

Lesson Evaluation & Reflection: To be completed when lesson has concluded.