Integrating the
Strategies Across
the Curriculum
By Kila Niblett Bach
The Rainforest 4th Grade
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Great for teachers and students
Videos
Lessons
Games
What Are The
Strategies 4th Graders
Should Know?
• How do I teach these in
all of the subjects?
 What about a thematic
unit?
 Is it possible to integrate
literature into the other
subjects?
Questioning
Visualizing
Determining
Importance
Inferring
Synthesizing
Summarizing
Reading
 List of books from
the Justin Public
Library.
 All on the 4th
grade reading
level
 All about the
rainforest
 Each genre is on
this list
Books Over the Rainforest
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A Walk in the Rainforest by Kristin Joy Pratt Published by: Dawn Publications in 1992
The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry Published by: Harcourt Children’s Books in 1990
At Home In the Rainforest by Diane Willow Published by Sanval in 1999
Rainforest Secrets by Arthur Doros Published by Scholastic in 1999
Rain, Rain Rainforest by Brenda Z. Guiberson Published by: Henry Holt and Co. in 2004
Crafts for Kids Who Are Wild About Rainforests by Kathy Ross Published by: Millbrook Press in 1997
Rainforests: An activity Guide For Ages 6-9 by Nancy Castaldo Published by: Chicago Review Press in
2003
The Encyclopedia of Rainforests by Diane Jukofsky Published by: Greenwood Publishing Group in 2001
Learn About: Rainforests by Jen Green Published by: Lorenz books in 2008 Rainforest Plants by Pamela
Dell Published by: Capstone Press in 2005
Flashy Fantastic Rainforest Frogs by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent Published by: Walker Books for Young
Readers in 1999
The Search For Cures From The Rain Forest by Carol Ballard Published by: Gareth Stevens Publishing in
2005
Journey into the Rainforest by Tim Knight Published by: Oxford University Press in 2001
Songs of the Forest: Rainforest poems by Edwin Wilson Published by: Hale and Iremonger in 1990
The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan K. Mitchell Published by: Sylvan Dell Publishing in 2007
Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme by Marianne Berkes Published by: Dawn Publications in 2007
Forests and Jungles by Gail Radley Published by: Lerner Publishing Group in 2001
The Shaman’s Apprentice by Lynne Cherry and Mark J. Plotkin Published by: Sandpiper in 2001
Komodo! – by Peter Sis Published by: Green Willow Books in 1993
The Vanishing Rainforest by Richard Platt Published by: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books in 2004
Writing
 Write a letter to The
Man with the Axe.
 Integrate The Great
Kapok Tree with a
writing/science
lesson.
 Questioning Strategy
Math
 Use Welcome to the
Green House by Jane
Yolen.
 Have students
determine the height of
a tree activity.
 Make graphs &charts
 Summarizing and
Synthesize
Science
 There are so many
lessons that you can
do with this subject and
texts.
 Visualizing and
Inferring Komodo
Dragons Lesson
 Komodo by Peter Sis
(fiction)
Social Studies
 Rainforest Plants by
Pamela Dell
 Determining and
questioning
 What products come from
the rainforests? Do you
use them? What will
happen if the rainforest go
away? Why does Dell
want you to know about
the products?
Music and Art
 Make a mural of the
rainforest
 Listen to sounds of the
rainforest
 Visualize and Infer
 The Shaman's
Apprentice by Lynne
Cherry and Mark J.
Plotkin
 Uses visualizing and
determining strategy.
Have Fun and Use Your
Strategies!!