QUILTS

Instructional Focuses

• Comprehension and Content Area
• Grades 3-8 and ELL students

How does it work?

• Students read a book or study a theme
• Students use critical thinking skills to represent it as a quilt square
• The class combines their quilt squares to create a quilt summarizing a big idea

Allows students to critically think about how to best represent a book or theme

Celebrates student reading and critical thinkng

Example of Student Work

Introducing Quilts

• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt- Hopkinson
• The Keeping Quilt- Polacco
• The Patchwork Quilt-Flournoy
• The Name Quilt- Root