Thinkport Newsletter: Reading Across Subject Areas

Martha Speaks: True Stories
Perfect for the classroom or to boost learning at home, these imaginative online stories focus around a range of STEM topics and include vocabulary prompts and definitions. Support materials: tips, activity ideas, charts, targeted vocabulary words and more. (Early Childhood)

Measuring How Much
Set out on a PBS KIDS afterschool adventure! Children explore volume, capacity, and weight and learn new math vocabulary words as they practice measurement with real and virtual measuring tools. Includes activity guide, video clips, online games and hands-on activities. (Elementary Grades)

Citing Evidence: Protecting Whales
Boost students’ cross-curricular skills with Thinkport's science-themed literacy module. While reading about protecting whales, students learn to cite textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical text. The activity includes a Welcome, Learn, Try, Review and Conquer section. (Grades 6-8)

Citizens’ Rights and Responsibilities: Voting 
One of the features of a true democracy is free and open elections. In this interactive module, students analyze quantitative and qualitative forms of information in order to answer compelling research questions about voter participation trends. (Grades 9-10)

Retell a Narrative Through Difference Eyes
Enhance students’ understanding! Students review the elements of a narrative and the narrator's point of view as they read a short story by Kate Chopin titled “The Story of an Hour.”  Understanding the plot, characters, and setting will help them create the final product, a narrative written from a different point of view. (Grade 10)