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TUMBLETA / ELA SKILL PLAN
Action and Feeling
When We Are Kind · Kindergarten · 10 minutes Written by Monique Gray Smith. Illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt. Orca Book Publishers, 2020.
- Objective:
- Connect a caring action to a feeling stated later in the book.
- Student product:
- An oral statement connecting the action to the feeling.
- 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 does the speaker do for family, and what feeling does the speaker connect with family kindness?
- Teacher model:
- The speaker helps family members and later describes joy when kindness is shared at home.
- Expected answer:
- The speaker helps family members and expresses joy about shared family kindness.
Where to look in the book
- Revisit the moment where the speaker helps family members.
- Revisit the later moment where shared kindness at home is connected with joy.
- Lesson sequence
- 2 min
- Revisit the action moment: What does the speaker do?
- 2 min
- Revisit the feeling moment: What feeling is named?
- 3 min
- Model the connection: The speaker helps ___ and later feels ___.
- 2 min
- Students give the connection orally, by pointing, drawing, or dictation.
- 1 min
- Exit check: Say the action and the feeling in one sentence.
- Differentiate
- Extend:
- Ask why a helpful action might lead to joy.
- Support:
- Use the frame: The speaker helps ___ and later feels ___.
Assessment
- Identifies helping family as the action.
- Identifies joy as the later feeling.
- Exit check:
- Say the action and the feeling in one sentence.
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