Contains plans for five 50-minute interdisciplinary lessons that ask students to write about math-related, informational books such as "Actual Size" (Jenkins, 2004) and "If You Hopped Like a Frog" (Schwartz, 1999). Students use books...

Here are two books to help students understand the concept of big, bigger, and biggest. Thinking about what big and bigger means helps children build the mathematical concept of measurement, particularly the big idea that all measurement...