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All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas
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All Are Welcome activities and lesson plan ideas

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Our All are Welcome Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Alexandra Penfold's book. Read aloud the diverse picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

 

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ author's purpose

☐ rhyme, rhythm and repetition

☐ making connections

☐ identifying main idea

☐ analyzing illustrations

 

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ diversity

☐ feelings

☐ inclusion

 

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ plural nouns

☐ adjectives

☐ contractions

☐ commas

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold is a sweet story that celebrates diversity and inclusion. Using a rhyming pattern, students will hear about a community of people where everyone feels welcome. The children in the classroom feel safe to be themselves and celebrate their differences as they learn. The story takes us through a school day in this community and we get to see how they make everyone feel at home.

Students will enjoy listening to this rhyming book and discussing community. This is a great story to launch discussions about your own community and inclusion.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

 Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
 Social-Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
 Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
 Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
 Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
 Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

 Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

 Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

 Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

 Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

 Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
 Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

 Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

 Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

 Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

 Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

 Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

  • narrative
  • persuasive / opinion
  • descriptive
  • expository / informative
  • creative / story writing
  • procedure / how-to
  • list-making
  • letter / postcard writing
  • poem
  • book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables