Grade Level: Preschool - 1st Grade
Product #: 1002110
Sample Pages

This reproducible resource is filled with ready-to-use lessons and cross-curricular activities.

This book is based on the following pieces of literature:All Kinds of Families, Poinsettia and Her Family.

For each of these featured books, activities are included which set the stage for reading, encourage the enjoyment of the book, and extend the concepts gained. In addition, the theme is connected to the curriculum with activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, art, music, and life skills.

Suggestions and patterns for bulletin boards and learning centers are additional time savers for the busy teacher. Furthermore, directions for student-created Big Books and culminating activities, which allow students to synthesize their knowledge in order to create products that can be shared beyond the classroom, highlight this very complete teacher resource.

This unit includes:

• literature selections - summaries of two children's books with related lessons (complete with reproducible pages) that cross the curriculum
• planning guides - suggestions for sequencing lessons each day of the unit
• language experience and writing ideas - suggestions for activities across the curriculum
• bulletin board ideas - suggestions and plans for student-created and/or interactive bulletin boards
• curriculum connections - suggestions for activities in language arts, math, science, art, music, social studies, and life skills like physical education and cooking
• group projects - suggestions for projects to foster cooperative learning
• a culminating activity - suggestions for a celebration which required students to synthesize their learning in an activity to be shared with others
• a bibliography - suggestions for additional literature and nonfiction books on the theme

Pages: 80