{"id":2168,"date":"2010-01-17T16:08:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2168"},"modified":"2010-01-17T16:08:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:08:47","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-how-many-how-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2010\/01\/17\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-how-many-how-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills with Children’s Literature: How Many, How Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Introduction and Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

In How Many, How Much, <\/a>by Rosemary Wells,\u00a0Timothy and his\u00a0friends learn about a variety of topics including:\u00a0numbers, measuring, and money.\u00a0\u00a0 In one example, they are going to measure something in school.\u00a0 As the reader, you are asked to look at the ruler at the top of the page and notice that the four is missing.\u00a0 You are asked to use the ruler to measure a pencil.\u00a0 In another example, the friends use their feet to measure distance.\u00a0 Two characters walk from their seat to the Learning Tree and the reader is asked who sits closer\/farther away from the tree.\u00a0 In an exercise related to this, the reader is asked to use his feet to measure things.\u00a0 The question posed is: In your bedroom, how many steps is your bed from the door?\u00a0 In this manner, the child will transfer his learning from the book into his own experience.<\/p>\n

This book includes many useful exercises involving numbers, shapes, and money and could be used for a variety of lessons.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n

This enjoyable book would be an excellent resource for a kindergarten classroom.\u00a0 It contains many activities that the teacher can do with the class as she reads the book to them.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0opens with an activity involving counting in which the\u00a0children can be asked how many teachers and students do they see in the picture.\u00a0 It contains an a simple activity involving classification of objects and another for identifying colors and shapes (K.1 k-objects are described pictorally and verbally).\u00a0 In addition, this resource asks questions about days of the week and how to use money (K.1 k).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Finally, there are exercises involving measurement.\u00a0 These are simple, yet interactive and fun for students. (K.1 e, g, h: standards focused on measurement)
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