Description
These Our Class Is a Family activities give you a full week of back to school reading lessons.
Our Class Is a Family by Shannon Olsen has a positive, uplifting message about how a class becomes a family. This Rooted in Reading unit pairs it with a nonfiction reader about types of homes. Every activity is available as a printable PDF and digitally in Seesaw, Google Slides, and PowerPoint, with teaching videos for your students.
What’s Included
- 5 days of lesson plans for reading and vocabulary
- Teaching videos: comparing, making connections, introducing vocabulary, and the directed drawing
- Picture examples of all activities
- Reading comprehension question stems
- Digital posters for making connections and comparing
- Me, Myself, and I activity
- Venn diagram for comparing animals and a Venn diagram flap-book
- Let’s Compare and Types of Homes activities
- Fiction passage and nonfiction passage
- Comprehension check with answer key
- Anchor charts for comparing and for types of homes
- Schoolhouse directed drawing and writing pages
- Nonfiction reader: Home Sweet Home
- Reading response craft: apartment building and writing pages
- Vocabulary picture cards, prompts, Match It!, words in sentences, and assessment
- 100 pages
Skills Practiced
- Making connections
- Comparing
- Vocabulary
- Nonfiction connection: types of homes
Digital Options
- PowerPoint: 12 files you can open and use, or add to the platform of your choice
- Seesaw: the activities are preloaded, so you can save and assign them with one click
- Google Slides: copy the files to your Google account with one click
Good to Know
- You will need a copy of Our Class Is a Family by Shannon Olsen
- This unit focuses on comprehension, vocabulary, and the nonfiction connection, so it does not include grammar or the Daily Deep Dive like our typical Rooted in Reading units
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading: Special Editions Bundle.
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