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Learning What Makes You Special: An Exploration into Individuality

By Schripe08
Grade Level
K-2
private
LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What identities do I share with my family? What identities do I have that are different from my family?
  • Does my identity mean I get to do things other kids can’t, or keep me from doing something?
  • What groups do I belong to?
  • How do people show that they are proud of themselves?
Texts
Teaching Strategies
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Challenge the Text

Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.
Grade Level
K-2
July 19, 2014
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)
Grade Level
K-2
CCSS
RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9
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

Fairness Fair

Students work in groups to role-play or tell stories about real life situations related to fairness, community, diversity or social justice themes. Students then perform their skits or stories for others as part of a class-wide “fairness fair.”
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
Schripe08

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