Lesson 1 Our Relatives Came
Lesson 1 Our Relatives Came
Grade Level: 1-2
Subjects: Language Arts, Art, Math
Learner Outcomes: The
students will make predictions about
The Relatives Came.
The students will identify reality/fantasy.
The students will identify other literature
with the same theme.
The students will identify immediate family.
The students will interpret a bar graph.
The students will go to Cynthia Rylant's
home page.
The students will recognize the inflectional
ending (ed) found in the story.
Time: 90 minutes
Materials: trade books,
The Relatives Came, art supplies (pencils,
crayons, construction paper) teacher-made bar
graph
Technology Tools/Courseware:
Microsoft Works (bar graph)
Computer, Cynthia
Rylant
cassette tape, EasyBook
Deluxe, software
Teacher Notes: Notify
Senior Citizen Center for volunteers to
assist in reading, art, family trees, and recounting
Appalachian History throughout unit, and check
files for Internet Release Forms.
Procedures: 1.
The teacher will ask the students to make predictions
about the book cover. After predictions, the
students will "picture walk" through the story.
The teacher will read the story The Relatives Came,
The teacher and students will choral read the story
together.
In large group - teacher/student discussion about
fiction/nonfiction, sequence of events, characters,
inflectional endings, and mapping.
2. Introduce
new vocabulary- brood, breathing, summer,
relatives, Virginia, soda pop,
sandwiches, traveled,
wrinkled, and squeezed
3. The students will draw and illustrate their immediate
family on construction paper. The illustrations will later
be put together to form a mural of a family reunion.
4. While students are working individually, the teacher
will assist students in accessing the internet to browse
Cynthia Rylant Homepage
5. The illustrations will be used as data to form bar
graphs. The teacher will outline a bar graph on chart
paper and the students will place their correct number
square on the bar graph. The teacher will take the data
and make a bar graph on Microsoft Works to show the
students how technology can use data to form graphs.
The students will discuss the conclusions of the graph.
The students will use a family circle
graph to list
family
characteristics.
6. The lesson will conclude with discussion of immediate
family and extended family (relatives).
Modification: First graders
will need to add unfamiliar words to
vocabulary list.
Enrichment: Students
will begin to create " My Family " stories by
using EasyBook Deluxe. The students will proofread,
edit, illustrate, and publish story by end of the unit.
Evaluation/Assessment:
Students will be evaluated through their
participation, art, and bar graph
contributions.
WV
Instructional Goals and Objectives:
Reading: 1.21 1.22 1.24
1.28 1.30 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.40.`1.43 1.44 1.45
1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.55 1.56 1.90 1.93 1.96 1.100
2.19 2.22 2.30 2.39 2.41 2.49 2.52 2.61 2.67
Listening: 1.1 1.2 1.5
1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.20
2.2 2.3 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.12
Computer Technology:
1.47 1.49 1.50 1.53
2.12 2.33 2.36 2.37
Math: 1.25 1.26 1.27
Visual Arts Level
II Grade K-4
1. Understands and applies
media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts
2. Knows how to use structures
(e.g., sensory qualities, organizational principles, expressive features)
and functions of art
Math
6. Understands and applies
basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis
Reading
5. Uses the general skills
and strategies of the reading process
6. Uses reading skills and
strategies to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
Listening and Speaking
8. Uses listening and speaking
strategies for different purposes
Technology
2. Knows the characteristics
and uses of computer software programs
References: Cynthia
Rylant
Sunburst EasyBook Deluxe software
Scott Foresman 2nd grade Teacher's Edition
Hamlin K-12 Complex
Robin
Stratton
Lester
Thompson
Sherri
Woods
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