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Key Details
When We Are Kind · Kindergarten · New York
TEACHES
KR2
Retell stories or share key details from a text.
Why this is a winner Students share two specific key details from the story by naming each caring action and its recipient.
Verified framework: New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards (2017), current for Kindergarten.
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TUMBLETA / ELA SKILL PLAN
When We Are Kind · Kindergarten · 15 minutes
Key Details
Written by Monique Gray Smith. Illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt. Orca Book Publishers, 2020.
- Objective:
- Identify two specific acts of kindness and match each action to its recipient.
- Student product:
- A picture match connecting each recipient to the correct kind action, followed by an oral or adult-scribed answer naming both matches.
- Materials:
- Book or read-along; drawing or response materials.
- Kindergarten
- Students may respond orally, by pointing or selecting, with a drawing
- response options:
- and oral explanation, or through adult scribing. Independent writing is not required unless the teacher deliberately adds it.
Focus question
What two kind actions does the speaker do for the dog and the Elders?
- Teacher model:
- The speaker cares for the dog by giving extra walking time and cares for the Elders by bringing food.
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- Expected answer:
- The speaker gives the dog a longer walk and provides food for the Elders.
Where to look in the book
- Revisit the moment where the speaker gives the dog a longer walk.
- Revisit the moment where the speaker brings food to the Elders.
- Lesson sequence
- 2 min
- Revisit the two book moments and name who receives each act of care.
- 4 min
- Model one match from the book: name the recipient and the action in a complete sentence.
- 5 min
- Students identify the dog with the longer walk and the Elders with the food, then explain both matches.
- 2 min
- Ask one student to retell both actions without looking back at the book.
- 2 min
- Exit check: Name one recipient and the exact kind action the speaker does.
- Differentiate
- Extend:
- Ask for a third recipient-action match from another part of the book.
- Support:
- Point to the relevant book images and use the frames: The dog gets ___. The Elders get ___.
Assessment
- Names the longer walk for the dog.
- Names food as the help given to the Elders.
- Exit check:
- Name one recipient and the exact kind action the speaker does.
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