Book Summary
The next time you pull up your sheets, put on a shirt, or dry yourself off with a fluffy towel, think about how these products were made--some form of weaving produced them all. Weaving Around the World will first tell you all about the history of and mechanics of weaving, from humans' earliest inventions to today's sophisticated mechanized looms. Then, get ready to go on a trip around the world, to find out how artisans and people from the six continents use weaving to create beautiful expressions of their culture and traditions.

About the Lesson

Targeted Reading Strategy

• Make, revise, and confirm predictions

Objectives

• Use the reading strategy of making, revising, and confirming predictions to understand text
• Identify details to compare and contrast information in text
• Identify and use complex sentences
• Recognize and use content vocabulary

Materials

• Book -- Weaving Around the World (copy for each student)
• Chalkboard or dry erase board
• Dictionaries
• Prediction, compare and contrast, complex sentences worksheets
• Discussion cards

      Indicates an opportunity for students to mark in the book. (All activities may be completed with paper and pencil if books are reused.)

Vocabulary

• Content words: artisans, backstrap loom, diversity, flat weaves, intermingled, intricate, mechanized, motifs, raised weaves, spinning, shed, textiles, tweed, warp, weft