book for coordinate graphing

12-03-2007, 06:40 PM
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I love to teach coordinate graphing! Here are two ideas:
1) For literature to teach coordinate graphing, try A Fly on the Ceiling by Julie Glass. It is a "step into reading" book, so the text will be fairly easy for your kids to read independently, if desired. The story tells about how Descartes was a very messy guy and needed a system for finding everything in his room. Very cute story, as I recall.
2) A couple of years ago, we created a "5th grade code" using a coordinate grid. We randomly assigned each letter of the alphabet and the numbers 0-9 to spaces on the grid. We photocopied the code on cardstock and gave each 5th grader a copy. We could then write messages "in code" and the kids would have to locate the letters on the grid to decode the message. Once the kids were comfortable with it, we even let them answer us in code and write their own riddles.
Good luck!
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