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TUMBLETA / ELA SKILL PLAN
Evidence Response
When We Are Kind · Kindergarten · 10 minutes Written by Monique Gray Smith. Illustrated by Nicole Neidhardt. Orca Book Publishers, 2020.
- Objective:
- Use two book details to explain one shared idea about kindness.
- Student product:
- One oral, dictated, or emerging-written sentence plus a drawing showing both examples.
- 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
How do helping family and sharing with friends both show kindness?
- Teacher model:
- The speaker shows kindness to people by helping at home and sharing with friends.
- Expected answer:
- Helping family members and sharing with friends are two ways the speaker treats people kindly.
Where to look in the book
- Revisit the moment where the speaker helps family members.
- Revisit the moment where the speaker shares with friends.
- Lesson sequence
- 2 min
- Revisit the two people-care examples.
- 2 min
- Ask what the two actions have in common.
- 2 min
- Model: Kindness can mean helping ___ and sharing with ___.
- 3 min
- Students produce the sentence orally, by dictation, drawing, or emerging writing.
- 1 min
- Exit check: Name both actions and the shared idea: kindness.
- Differentiate
- Extend:
- Ask for one more book example that fits the same idea.
- Support:
- Use the sentence frame and point back to the two relevant book moments.
Assessment
- Includes helping family members.
- Includes sharing with friends.
- Connects both actions to kindness.
- Exit check:
- Name both actions and the shared idea: kindness.
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