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What is a family?

By KatC
Grade Level
3-5
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LEARNING PLAN
Essential Question
  • What is a family?
  • Who makes a family?
  • What do families have in common?
Texts
Literature

Miami by Fujian

Mariel visits her birthplace in China with her adopted parents. Although she struggles to fit in at times in her school in Miami, visiting her old orphanage helps her learn about where she comes from and opens her eyes to how lucky she is.
by
David Kwee
Grade Level
3-5
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Topic
Immigration
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity
November 30, 2017
Teaching Strategies
Close and Critical Reading

Annolighting

“Annolighting” (annotating and highlighting) shows students how to identify critical information in a text during close reading. Students learn to annotate text, highlight important facts and summarize what they have read to capture main ideas, concepts and details.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2, RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, RL.3.5, RI.3.5, L.3-5.4
July 19, 2014
Community Inquiry

Readers' Theater

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
RF.3-5.4, RL.3-5.3, RI.3-5.3, SL.3-5.6
July 13, 2014
Student Tasks
Do Something

Identity Self-Portraits

Students create visual self-portraits that contain symbols representing the student’s identity, beliefs, values or areas of interest related to diversity, anti-bias or social justice.
Grade Level
K-2
July 13, 2014
Plan Built By
KatC

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