Now that you've viewed the video and read the Guidance section of this module:

1. Consider a theme unit (cross-curricular in nature). It could be science/language arts literacy, social studies/language arts literacy, or mathematics/language arts literacy for example.
2. Select a book of poems or a storybook connected to your theme.
3. Select words from the passage (poem or story) that could be used in a mini-phonics lesson.
4. Conduct a read aloud using the poem or story. Ask comprehension questions to review science, social studies, or other content area concepts related to the read aloud text.
5. Use the same whole group instructional strategies seen in the video clip to conduct a phonics mini-lesson.

For online activities/resources:

• Check out these cross-curricular lessons at Read*Write*Think:
  • Grades K-2
    • Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
      (reading, science)
    • The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
      (reading, science)
  • Grades 3-5
• What If We Changed the Book? Problem-Posing with "Sixteen Cows"
  (reading, mathematics)
• Multipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency (reading, science)
• Looking for the History in Historical Fiction: An Epidemic for Reading
  The stories from the booklist, namely The Birchbark House and Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, might be books that you would want to read aloud to third grade students. (reading, social studies)
• Visit Enchanted Learning for K-3 themes, nursery rhymes, science and social studies information.