Quilts
Literacy Strategy
What is it?
What is the purpose?
- The main purpose of using quilts in the classroom is to enhance comprehension.
- It can be done in lots of different ways depending on the needs of the students.
- It can focus on theme, main idea, moral, characters, settings... so many options!
How to use quilts in the classroom?
2. Students draw border, then add their pictures or words.
3. Teacher puts together the quilt pieces to create one big quilt. Also, the teacher can use the quilt to enhance comprehension.
Quilts can be DIVERSE.
Quilts can be used with small or large groups and cover a wide range of topics.
Quilts can be used in all classrooms. This strategy can be useful in any grade level. It can be differentiated with in the classroom as well.
Standards Connection
RL.5.2 – Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
RL.5.7 – Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).
Resources
Hill, K. (2000). The year of Miss Agnes. New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books.
Kansas Standards - Common Core Standards | Common Core Activities, Worksheets, and Workbooks. (n.d.). Retrieved February 01, 2016, from http://www.corecommonstandards.com/common-core-state-standards/state-standards/kansas-standards/
Stewart, R. (2015). "Reading Response Book Quilts". Retrieved February 01, 2016, from http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2015/02/reading-response-book-quilts
TeacherVision. (2000). "Story Quilts". Retrieved February 01, 2016, from https://www.teachervision.com/childrens-art-activities/lesson-plan/5613.html?page=2
Tompkins, G. E. (2004). 50 literacy strategies: Step by step. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/ Merrill/Prentice Hall.