Religious Integration

Reading/Literature Activities
Writing Activities
Oral Language Activities
Language Activities
Research & Inquiry Activities

• Write letters to prayer partners
• Write thank you notes to people who have donated, helped, etc.
• Write journals, use journals to write prayers and express religious comprehension, prayer journals
• Center handwriting lessons around bible verses, memorize and recite it, write prayer requests for intention basket at prayer time
• Story starters include writing about feast days, holy men and women, if I lived in the time of ___________, etc., what heaven is like, etc.
• Preparation of writing through outlines, timelines, graphic organizers, rough drafts, editing final drafts of content area referencing our faith.
• Use Christian values when conferencing about work ethic and behavior
• Use color book pages with religious theme as a story starter
• Diagram sentences/verses from the Bible
• Capitalize names from Bible, abbreviations of people (Fr., St., etc), capitalize holidays
• Copy bible verses from the Gospels and use quotation marks to show words of Jesus
• Use words of faith in sentences when giving spelling test
• Incorporate words from religion text into weekly spelling list as bonus words

• Christmas program, Spring program, read books about saints and prophets, narrate Stations of the Cross, write morning announcements, read in Church/intercessions, etc., prepare religious skits to perform, recite daily prayers
• Reading and speaking at Mass, prayers in the classrooms, discussion, reading psalms, oral presentations, giving directions, social interaction/communication, small and large group discussion, literature circles, forensics, debate, protocol when using the phone, addressing others (peers, adults), choral reading, readers’ theater, puppet theater flannel board stories, focus on speakers and retelling of what was said, conversation on comprehension, author’s chair.
• Enunciate words when singing songs for Mass, reciting and singing in Christmas program
• Act out bible stories
• Write a report on a saint and present to class
• Teacher read bible stories
• Listen to Saint of the Day on www.americancatholic.org, quiet meditation
• Review homilies, bible stories, parables
• Summarize and retell Bible stories
• Retell stories from bible to other/younger students, preview of the Gospels read in Mass, Bible stories from religion curriculum
• Read religious based books with discussion, The Christmas Box, The Bible, Saint books, bible stories

• Vocabulary,
• research papers,
• discussion on good vs. evil,
• social justice,
• resources for development of vocabulary,
• words in our language,
• forms of communication,
• reference materials,
• classics,
• “We the People Bookshelf”,
• debates,
• facts vs opinion,
• inferring,
• relevant vs irrelevant,
• appropriate vs inappropriate,
• root/base words,
• foreign languages as they connect to the English language,
• sensory words and symbols,
• common vs slang,
• writings and books of the Bible and their use as it relates to today’s global community,
• DARE programs,
• safe environment programs,
• morals and values to include moral decision and dilemmas,
• journal entry responses to prompt which address situational problem solving
• Use holy day calendar, saint calendar
• Discuss how words from bible translate into English

• Development of reports and research projects,
• formulations and development of manuscripts including outlines, data retrieval, research for composing reports, use of geography in writing reports with regard to beginning of religion and our faith,
• use of local resources such as school and public libraries,
• note taking for learning,
• testing of information learned,
• imbedding quotes and citing sources appropriately,
• presentations of information gathered and prepared.