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A Literature-Based Thematic Unit For A Multi-Age Classroom : Friendship, Leslie Baxter
A Literature-Based Thematic Unit For A Multi-Age Classroom : Friendship, Leslie Baxter
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A literature-based thematic unit, friendship, has been developed for a multi-age classroom (grades three and four). This thematic unit can contribute to a major goal of a multi-age classroom: to provide students with a learning community in which they can find meaningful learning experiences, thus strengthening their personal-social and thinking-language abilities. The strands for the unit not only included friendship among peers, but also they extended the horizons of friendship to young children through mentoring, to peers at a distance through pen pals, and to the elderly through visitations to a retirement home.
In developing a print-rich learning environment for …