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Learning our Shapes in the outside World

By adomingo97
Grade Level
K-2
private
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • How do shapes revolve around our world?
  • How many shapes can you find?
  • What kind of shapes are they? Big or small?
  • How many sides do they have?
  • What groups do I belong to?
Texts
Teaching Strategies
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Author's Chair

Using either a Perspectives central text or their original work, children take on the role of “author,” reading the text aloud and facilitating a class discussion.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9, RF.K-2.4
July 19, 2014
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Cracking the Code

During Cracking the Code, students examine texts for bias related to race, gender, class, religion, age and sexual orientation, among other identity categories.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RL.K-2.7, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.6, RI.K-2.7
July 19, 2014
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Readers' Theater

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RF.K-2.3, RF.K-2.4, RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.3, RI.K-2.1
July 19, 2014
Student Tasks
Do Something

Buddy Share

Students choose a mode of expression—e.g., writing, art or storytelling—to share theme-related ideas and feelings with a “buddy” from outside the classroom.
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Do Something

Collage of Concerns

Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
adomingo97

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