www.letsreadmath.com cbpass@aol.com Claire Passantino, EdD

AGENDA Let’s Read Math: Ways to Combine Early Reading with Early Math First Up 2019 Early Childhood Conference Sat, Mar 2, 2019 1-2:30 p.m. Claire Passantino, Founder and Director of Let’s Read Math

1. Intro to the Workshop Index cards (1) Name (2) Email Address (3) Organization (4) Ages of Students Introductions Agenda Overview – Relevance to Bloom’s Taxonom Relevance to Standards Building Math Understanding (Star Diagram)

2. Let’s Read Math: The Four-Part Lesson

Pre-Activity/ Lesson Introduction Read the Book – (Consider the RB4 workshops about interactive reading) Do the Math- Follow Up Activities – Take-home items

You Tube Read-Alouds www.abcya.com

3. Funbook A (for Primary Grades) The Books and Math Topics The Funbooks and the related Student Packets For PreK? Enlarged Charts and Graphics

4. Sample Lessons

Rooster’s Off to See the World Bear in a Square Five Little Monkeys/ Benny’s Pennies/ Anno’s Counting Book One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab Fiesta con Pizza

5. Applying for Classroom Sets of Funbooks (Additional applications can be downloaded from the website: www.letsreadmath.com)

6. Venues for Let’s Read Math: Classrooms After School Centers Summer Programs Libraries Family Nights Parent Education Home Visits Title I Special Ed/ Gifted

REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN WITH MATH!

Let’s Read Math 1 Franklin Town Blvd, #2012 Philadelphia PA 19103 215-771-0046

Graphic from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University cft.vanderbilt.edu 

 

REMEMBER:

What is Let’s Read Math about? How does it work?

UNDERSTAND: How will this help children with math and reading? What are some different ways to implement the program?

APPLY: How could Let’s Read Math work for me at my site?

ANALYZE: What are the pros and cons to doing Let’s Read Math with the staff, parents, and children at my site? Do we want to try it? What steps do we need to take to move forward?

EVALUATE: Did it work for us at our site? What worked well? What would we like to improve? Do we want to try it again?

CREATE:

How could we do this better? What improvements could we make? Are there other books or activities we would like to try?  

Funbook A:  Core Content State Standards

Name of BookCounting & Cardinality

Operations & Algebraic Thinking

NumBaseTenNumber ‐ Fractions

Measurement    and Data

GeometryExpressions     & Equations

Statistics & Probability

Anno Counting K.CC.1,2,3,4ab,5K.NBT.1   

1.NBT.2

Bear in a Square

K.G.1,2,4,5,6  

1.G.1; 2.G.1  

4.G.2

Beep Beep Vroom Vroom! K.MD.3; 1.MD.4

Benny's Pennies K.CC.1

Fiesta con Pizza

3.NF.1,3abd  

4.NF.1,3a  

5.NF.1,2

1.G.3; 2.G.3  

3.G.2

Five Little Monkeys K.CC.1Grandpa's Quilt 3.MD.5ab K.G.1,5,6 Hannah's Collections K.CC.1,5Inch by Inch 1.MD.2; 2.MD.1Missing Mittens 2.OA.3Mitten, The K.MD.2; 1.MD.1

One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab K.CC.1,5

K.OA.1,2  

1.OA.1,2,3,6  

2,OA.1;3.OA.5  

4.OA.3; 5.OA.1,2

6.EE.2

P. Bear's New Year's Party 1.MD.3; 2.MD.7

Rooster's Off to See the 

WorldK.CC.1,4b,5,6

K.MD.3; 1.MD.4 

2.MD.10  3.MD.3K.G.1

Ten Black Dots K.CC.1,5 K.G.1,2; 1.G.1What Comes in 2's, 3's & 

4's?K.CC1,5

Let's Read Math: PA Early Learning Standards for the Books in Funbook A

Name of Book

2.1            Numbers

2.2 Computation & Estimation

2.3 Measurement & Estimation

2.4                Reasoning & Connections

2.5                ProbSolving & Communication

2.6     Statistics     & Data 

2.7 Probability & Connections

2.8  Algebra & Functions

2.9 Geometry

2.11 Calculus

          Other Stds

Anno Counting 2.1.1,2,3

3.1.c.2 

seasons; 

8.1.1 chg 

over time

Bear in a Square 2.9.1

Beep Beep Vroom 

Vroom!2.1.6 2.6.2 2.8.3 3.4e.5 

transportn

Benny's Pennies 2.1.26.2.3 

money

Fiesta con Pizza 2.7.1 2.8.16.1.2 equal 

distribution 

1.71 other 

languages

Five Little Monkeys 2.1.1, 2

Grandpa's Quilt

2.9.2

3.4.c2 

design; 

10.5.1,2 

coordnatn

Hannah's Collections2.1.1,2; 2.1.6 

(sort)2.6.2

Inch by Inch 2.3.1,2

Missing Mittens2.1.1 

before/after

Mitten, The 2.3.1,2,4,6 2.4.1

One is a Snail, Ten is a 

Crab

2.1.1,2,3,6 

(word probs)2.2.1,2 2.4.2 2.5.1,2 2.8.1,2,5 3.10.5

P. Bear's New Year's 

Party2.3.1 2.8.5

Rooster's Off to See 

the World2.1.1,2 2.3.3 2.5.2 2.6.1,2,3,5 2.7.3,4,5 2.8.6 2.9.3 2.11.1

Ten Black Dots 2.1.1,2,3 2.8.5

What Comes in 2's, 3's 

& 4's?2.1,2,3 2.2.2 15.1.3

from Claire Passantino   9‐11‐13

The Books for Funbook 2TITLE AUTHOR MATH TOPICS PUBLISHER/ISBN

Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream Cindy Neuschwander Scholastic, Inc

0-590-30013-X

Scholastic, Inc.0-439-38901-1

Harper Trophy0-688-14732-1

Puffin Books0-14-056500-0

Random House0-679-88607-9

Multiplication (using sets and arrays)

Fractions (parts of a whole, and parts of a set)

Graphing (line plots) Adding, estimating

Counting(African theme)

Coordinate Geometry (using a coordinate grid)

Grosset and Dunlap0-448-42896-2

Kids Can Press1-55074-816-5

Scholastic Press0-439-44440-3

Henry Holt & Co0-8050-6572-5

Little Brown & Co0-316-78982-8

Scholastic, Inc0-590-26598-9

Holiday House0-8234-1638-0

Simon and Schuster0-671-79613-5

Scholastic, Inc0-590-94461-4

Harper Collins0-06-446250-1

Boyds Mills Press1-56397-925-X

Graphing(line, bar, and pie graphs)

Number Sense (estimation)

Addition (and creative counting)

Fractions (with art)Spatial Sense

Money (ways to make a quarter)

Geometry(properties of shapes)

Area and PerimeterSpatial Sense

Probability (combinations)Multiplication

Addition (ways to make 10)Mapping (aerial view)

Probability (combinations)Number Sense (ordering large numbers)

Measurement

Chrysanthemum Kevin Henkes

Emeka's Gift Ifeoma Onyefulu

Math for All Seasons Greg Tang

Measuring Penny Loreen Leedy

Picture Pie Ed Emberley

Shape Up! David A. Adler

Six-Dinner Sid Inga Moore

The Sundae Scoop Stuart J. Murphy

Wanda's Roses Pat Brisson

A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy Caren Holtzman

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All Marilyn Burns

The Fly on the Ceiling Dr. Julie Glass

Graphs Bonnie Bader

How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000?

Helen Nolan

Apple Fractions Jerry Pallotta

www.letsreadmath.com cbpass.@aol.com Dr. Claire Passantino

LET’S READ MATH GIVEAWAYS – SPRING 2019 Let’s Read Math is a supplementary program for early elementary grades that involves reading good children’s books, then doing related math activities that are FUN! We combine reading with math for two reasons:

1- To gently introduce the idea of reading in the content areas by using high quality children’s books. 2- To overcome math anxiety in children and their parents as a way to foster success with school math.

The program is often used in classrooms to address math topics and approaches to learning that are consistent with Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Standards and the Common Core State Standards. It has also been used in a wide variety of out-of-school settings:

In after-school programs In summer programs In libraries For parent education At family nights With home visitors for early learning in the home

This spring, Let’s Read Math is giving away FREE Let’s Read Math materials to organizations who want to try Let’s Read Math at their own site. Just select the materials you want to try, and tell us what you plan to do. Next spring we will ask you how things worked out.

FREE sets of Funbooks: Choose one or both options:

Option 1 (Funbook A for grades K-2): Get 3 copies of Funbook A with student pages and teacher directions. Also get 60 copies of the “student packs” (sheets of punchouts and stickers to use with the lesson pages). This is enough for 2-3 classes. Teachers can pick and choose and photocopy any of the Funbook A pages they want to use, then give students the stickers and punchouts needed for the chosen lessons.

Option 2: 30 copies of Funbook 2, and 2 copies of the Funbook 2 Teacher’s Guide. (Grades 2-4). Select the books and Funbook pages you want to use. Punchouts are on the cover of the Funbook.

Application Form

Fill out the application form and WRITE YOUR ESSAY ABOUT HOW YOU PLAN TO USE YOUR LET’S READ MATH MATERIALS (300-500 WORDS). Submit your application and essay by MAY 1, 2019. You will be notified if your application has been approved, by May 15.

Additional Items for PURCHASE, if desired - Send check or PO to the LRM address below. Note: No additional items are needed for you to use the LRM program, but here are some items to consider:

$15 Flash Drive with enlarged FBA graphics (pictures of the punchouts and stickers (esp useful for PreK-K). There are also .pdf files of the lesson pages, so you can take them to Staples to get enlarged charts for whole class lessons, (about $3 for a 3’x5’ chart)

$30 Flash Drive with Binder containing hard copies of the items included on the flash drive.

$110 Funbook A Collection of the 16 children’s story books that go with the Funbook A Lessons (or find the books on your own, or look for read alouds on YouTube)

$110 Funbook 2 Collection of the 16 children’s story books that go with the Funbook 2 Lessons.

Note: about 3 books are out of print but we have acquired good used copies so you have the complete sets of books.

HAVE FUN WITH MATH !

Let’s Read Math 1 Franklin Town Blvd, #2012 Philadelphia PA 19103 215-771-0046

APPLICATION FORM – SPRING 2019

1. ̀ Name of Person Requesting Free Materials

2. Contact info Address:

Phone:

Email address:

3. Name of Your Organization

4. Type of Organization (School/SchoolDistrict/Library/AfterSchoolCenter, etc)

Website (if available):

5. How familiar are you with Let’s Read Math? (Check all that apply.) [ ] I attended a LRM workshop [ ] I have used LRM in the past (when/where) [ ] I heard about it from a friend [ ] I have visited the LRM website

6. Materials Request: (Select one or both option) If you select both options, your writeup must describe

how you intend to use the materials with two different age groups. Option 1: 3 copies of Funbook A (for use by teachers/staff to photocopy if desired), with 60 copies of the student packs (sheets of punchouts and stickers to use with the lessons). Lessons for K-2.

Option 2: 30 copies of Funbook 2, and 2 copies of the Funbook 2 Teacher’s Guide. (Grades 2-4) Punchouts for the lessons are on the cover of the Funbook.

7. YOUR GRANT APPLICATION: Please send an essay (300-500 words): How do you plan to use your Let’s Read Math materials? Describe the group(s) of students, teachers, other staff, and/or parents who will be using the materials. Explain what you plan to do. 8. ADDITIONAL PURCHASES (if desired)

$15 for the Funbook A Flash Drive with enlarged graphics of stickers and punchouts $30 for the Flash Drive with Binder showing samples of the Funbook A files on the drive $110 for the Funbook A Book Collection of 16 books that go with Funbook A $110 for the Funbook 2 Book Collection of the 16 books that go with Funbook 2

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Submit applications and any purchase orders by email to cbpass@aol.com. Or mail to: Dr. Claire Passantino, Let’s Read Math, 1 Franklin Town Blvd. #2012, Philadelphia PA 19103

Applications due by May 1, 2019. You will be notified by May 15..

Helping Children to Learn and Enjoy Math Making Connections As you work with the children you love, talk to them and watch them closely. Think about the way they are learning, discovering, and connecting new ideas to things they already know. Although early learning typically follows a path of "concrete to pictorial to abstract," as we get older we have bits and pieces of knowledge that need to get connected to each other. Things make sense to us or not, depending on what we know from our overall life experiences. Researchers involved in The Rational Number Study that took place in the 1980's and early 1990s came up with this diagram as a way to think about the different kinds of mathematical representations and how they get connected to each other.

An adaptation of a model presented in: Lesh, R., Post, T., and Behr, M. (1987). Representations and translations among representations in mathematical learning and problem solving. In C. Janvier (Ed.), Problems of representation in the teaching and learning of mathematics (pp. 33-40). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. The diagram shows how we connect representations as we build our understanding of mathematics. We are constantly trying to figure out how what we know from the real world is connected to what we read and what we hear from others; how it connects to diagrams and pictures we have seen, or models of how things work. We talk to our friends and write down things as a way to organize our thoughts; we make little sketches or little models to explain what we are thinking. The more flexible we are with using and connecting our mathematical representations, the deeper our understanding of the embedded ideas.

In Let's Read Math, we use this model to guide our thinking about how to structure math activities for children. It helps to determine how the books we are using are related to real life. We then develop strategies for getting children to make models or use math tools, as a hands-on experience that will promote mathematical understanding. The pictures in the books are used to communicate mathematical ideas, and we find ways for children to make and interpret drawings, diagrams, charts and graphs. Working in small groups, or with friends and family, they get to express their ideas verbally, and interpret what other people are saying. And by providing an environment where such activities are taking place in a fun way, we intend for children to feel good about the math they are learning. Helping children to make connections is the way we view our work.

"Making connections" is a process also emphasized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, in their recommendations for good instructional practice. Not only does NCTM recommend making "connections," they also advocate problem solving, reasoning, communicating about what is being learned, and using representations such as physical models or pictures and diagrams.

There's more to "doing math" than writing numbers on paper. …from “Getting Started with Let’s Read Math Workshops” by Claire Passantino, 2007