The learning activity, ‘School Sculpture’ poses the problem of locating a variety of school buildings on a site. Students cut out and place scaled drawings of buildings onto paper to create their own school design. The answer sheet includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Graphic Features,’ helps students understand the purpose of graphic features in texts. It has students work together to determine the graphic features in the text and then think about how these graphic features contribute to the text.
This content area reading learning activity, ‘Using Pictures,’ helps students use pictures to derive meaning. It is aimed at enhancing students’ comprehension of a text by making inferences.