Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plan - Everyone is Different!

Essential Question

How am I the same as other people? How am I different from other people?
How can I show people I like them?
What makes me unique from everyone else?
What skills/talents do I have?
What can I do to relate to people who are different than I am?
How can I learn more about other people?

Texts

Literature

Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation

With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.

Mary Newell DePalma

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Ability

July 2, 2014

Teaching Strategies

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Students make connections to read-aloud texts by relating the text to themselves (lived experiences), to other texts (read in any setting) and to the world (current and historical events)

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.9, RI.K-2.9

July 19, 2014

Responding to the Read-Aloud Text

Readers' Theater

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RF.K-2.3, RF.K-2.4, RL.K-2.1, RL.K-2.3, RI.K-2.1

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Buddy Share

Students choose a mode of expression—e.g., writing, art or storytelling—to share theme-related ideas and feelings with a “buddy” from outside the classroom.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

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Teaching Tolerance Lesson Plan - Everyone is Different!

Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation

Making Connections During Read Aloud

Readers' Theater

Buddy Share

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