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Shizuko’s Daughter: Magic Square Lesson PlanShizuko’s Daughter: Magic Square Lesson Plan
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7th - 12th
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Shizuko’s Daughter: Magic Square

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Vocabulary really adds up with magic squares! Using words from Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, kids line up words and definitions to come up with the same sum across and down the square.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

Vocabulary, novels, magic squares

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • A great warm-up activity or homework assignment
  • Have kids design their own magic squares with different words from the novel, or from another vocabulary list

Pros

  • A fun way to combine math and language arts
  • Provides an answer key, student version, and teacher instructions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.7.4 RL.8.4 RL.9-10.4 RL.11-12.4

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