What If Your ABCs Were Your 123s?: Building Connections Between Literacy and Numeracy

Book Overview

"Makes an interesting and thought-provoking contribution to the field of mathematics instruction. Looking at math and literacy as closely aligned language structures creates a need to rethink the strategies used for math instruction."
--Catherine Hernandez, Second-Grade Teacher
Detroit Public Schools, MI

"It′s about time Teaching literacy has been researched, written about, and rewritten so that it can be taught using the most effective methods for optimal learning. Little of this has transpired for mathematics. This book is very unique."
--Deborah Gordon, Third-Grade Teacher
Madison Simis School, Phoenix, AZ

Transform the way you think about and teach elementary-level mathematics

While many teachers feel confident about their preparation and strategic repertoire for literacy instruction, some are less confident about their preparation and content depth for teaching math. Based on the idea that mathematics and reading are two subject areas more alike than different, What If Your ABCs Were Your 123s? illustrates the parallels between literacy and mathematics and helps elementary teachers take what they know about teaching literacy and apply that knowledge to strengthen their math instruction.

Designed for the primary and elementary levels, this practical handbook illustrates how teachers can deepen their own mathematical understanding and improve students′ achievement by providing:

Teaching scenarios that model the crossover of strategies Comprehension strategies to develop and strengthen students′ grasp of foundational conceptsInstructional approaches to help students value mathematics and feel competent in their abilities to reason, solve problems, and communicate their thinkingStudent work samples illustrating literacy and math connections

Gain a detailed, comprehensive understanding of the relationship between literacy and numeracy and significantly increase your effectiveness in mathematics instruction

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412936489
• ISBN13: 9781412936484
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

A Very Insightful Read

This book by Minton has been extremely enlightening. As an undergraduate student about to graduate to work on her Teacher's Certification and Masters in Education, this book has provided me with information that will certainly improve my understanding. I had never analyzed the relationships present between numeracy and literacy. Reading in math is also a skill that has not been emphasized and this book does a good job expressing the connections and the need to teach strategies for reading math in the classroom. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interesting in teaching math.

A must for every elementary teacher!

This book has begun great conversations in our school with our teachers. It has allowed teachers to talk about the ideas about numeracy through a friendly lens of literacy. The book is written in a manner conducive to inviting readers to reflect on their own practice in light of the ideas shared in the book. We have loved it and will continue to offer ongoing conversation time as we develop our numeracy instruction strategies.

Connections between reading comprehension strategies and math strategies

This book is an easy read for getting started on making connections between reading comprehension strategies and math strategies to enhance math instruction in the elementary classroom.