Cube Creator

Using this great site from ReadWriteThink, students used information from the Lou Gehrig biography they were reading to make a Bio Cube.  This is a great task to see students' comprehension of a subject in other ways and to have them illicit facts from literature.  4th Grade Purple was able to save  these to their USBs which we can print at a later date and actually make into a cube.  

On the website, you can make a variety of different cubes and even generate one suited to what ever unit you are studying in class.

Cube Creator

Biography & Autobiography

In reading, students are looking at the genres biographies and autobiographies.

Through discussion, we noted that a biography is a real story about a real person's life written by someone else.  An autobiography is also a real story about a real person's life but it is written by that person, not someone else.

In starting this unit, we began looking at a biography about Lou Gehrig, the baseball player from the New York Yankees.  Students have read, discussed and analyzed the story thoroughly.  It is great to see the questions they come up with and the information they want to learn (although they do think I know everything about everyone lol).