TLED 478: Integrating Instruction Across the Curriculum
Name: Alexia Perkins
Date: 02/11/18
Reading Response # 4
Assigned Reading(s): Wood, K.E. (2015). Interdisciplinary instruction: Unit and lesson planning
strategies K-8. Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc. [Chapter 4: Designing a Multidisciplinary
Unit]
Atkinson, T.S., Matusevich, M.N., & Huber, L. (2009). Making science trade book choices for
elementary classrooms. The Reading Teacher, 62(6), 484-497.
Kinniburgh, L.H., & Byrd, K. (2008). Ten black dots and September 11: Integrating social studies and
mathematics through children’s literature. Social Studies, 99(1), 33-36.
Manning, M., & Manning, G. (1995). Teaching reading and writing: Literature in the content areas.
Teaching PreK-8, 26(3), 110-111.
Shatzer, J. (2008). Picture book power: Connecting children’s literature and mathematics. The
Reading Teacher, 61(8), 649-653.
Respond to the following prompts using a minimum of 400 words and a maximum of 600.
1. Summarize the main points of the reading(s), in the simplest terms possible. Clearly make
connections to integrating instruction across the curriculum. The readings explain the
