Kindergarten Diversity

Essential Question

How can I learn more about other people?
Are people all the same?
How am I the same as other people? How am I different from other people?

Texts

Visual

Two Friends

This photograph depicts two children playing. One child has multiple disabilities and the other child does not.

Realistic Reflections

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Ability

July 2, 2014

Literature

Chicken Soup: A Russian Tale of Giving

As the tsar sets out across the countryside in disguise, he meets two very different families and learns of the differing people (and their motives) living in his land.

Irina Starovoytova

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Class

July 2, 2014

Informational

Families

This excerpt explains that families are defined by love, caring and sharing, not the number or gender of its members.

Ann Morris

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8

Topic

Religion Class Immigration

November 7, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts

This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RL.K-2.6, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.3, RI.K-2.6

July 16, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

This strategy gives students tools to use when exploring, thinking about and discussing read-aloud texts.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.3

July 13, 2014

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Realia

Realia are real-life objects that enable children to make connections to their own lives as they try to make sense of new concepts and ideas. This strategy brings the Perspectives central text to life for students by using everyday objects during the read aloud.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.2, RL.K-2.3, RI.K-2.1, RI.K-2.2, RI.K-2.3

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

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

Do Something

Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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