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Text Set- Teachers Guide
READ 3090 Key Assessment
Goals: Students will know the meaning of perseverance.
Students will be able to identify examples of perseverance in various texts.
Students will be able to explain times where they have persevered or needed perseverance in their own lives.
Multicultural Perspectives : Click here to learn how this set includes global perspectives
Differentiation of text set : Click here to learn how this set is differentiated
Lessons : Click here for lesson descriptions for each book in this set
Lesson differentiation : Click here for how each lesson is differentiated
The Magical Yet
Text Set Book 1
The Magical Yet By: Angela DiTerlizzi
This is a fiction picture book with fantasy elements as there is a creature called Yet who helps us learn new things.Yet is with us all the time and this book is about a young girl understanding the power of the magic of yet. It explores all of the things the girl cannot do YET but she can continue to learn and grow to eventually be able to do these things. This is a great book to teach students about persevering , not giving up when they can't do things, recognizing it is only a matter of not being able to YET.
Amazing Grace
Text Set Book 2
Amazing Grace By: Mary Hoffman This is a contemporary fiction book with a highlight on diversity. In this book, a young girl learns to believe in herself and keep trying even when other people doubt her or discourage her. This book is told from the point of view of a young African American girl who has to overcome people saying she couldn’t do something because of her race and gender. Amazing Grace is wonderful book students can easily connect with and view as a time of determination, being in a school setting they are all familiar with.
Jabari Jumps
Text Set Book 3
Jabari Jumps By: Gaia Cornwall Jabari is a young boy who is scared to jump off the high dive, the story follows him as he finds the perseverance to jump and face his fears. In this story, the main character Jabari faces his fears through determination and by the end jumps off of the high dive. In this book, students can easily identify the fear Jabari got over and see how he didn't give up. Jabari Jumps is also a multicurltural book being written by and including characters who are African American, allowing more students to see themselves in literature.
Tia Isa Wants a Car
Text Set Book 4
Tia Isa Wants a Car By: Mey Medina Tia Isa keeps working and saving money to buy a car to take her family on vacation. This story shows determination in a different light than the other books in this text set. This story features an adult character showing determination for something that she wants that she has to work for. Rather than showing a simple matter of perservering, this story is about repeated determination to work for something that you want.
Flight School
Text Set Book 5
Flight School By: Lita Judge This book is about a little penguin who is determined to fly against all odds. He sees other birds flying and wonders why not me. In the book, the little penguin joins a flight school and struggles to learn and keep up with his classmates. Despite these struggles, he never gives up. By the end of the story with his determination and use of a mix of machines and random parts, he is able to make his dream of flying come true. This book provides a different view of determination, this time with animal characters and an easy to follow storyline.
A Chair for My Mother
Text Set Book 6
A Chair for my Mother By: Vera B Williams This story is a Caldecott award honor book. This story follows Rosa, her Grandmom and her Mother saving money to buy a new chair for them after a fire burns everything in thier home. The books follows them as they work hard to earn money, staying determined to save enough. By the end, Rosa has worked hard and is able to help buy a comfortable chair that her mother can relax in after working hard all day at work. This book shows a family dynamic that many kids can relate to and understand working hard and having motivation to do something nice for your mother.
Differentiation
This text set is differentiated by both level and interests. Books like Jabari Jumps, Flight School, and the Magical Yet are on grade level for first graders, having a clear easy to follow story line and themes that are less complex to comprehend. The Magical Yet and Flight School both have fantasy elements and less realism that is sure to enagge and excite students. The story Amazing Grace is a realistic fiction story set in a school, an environment students will all relate to while providing a higher reading level for students to be exposed to. The books Tia Isa Wants a Car and A Chair for my Mother are both stories with higher reading levels that are examples of determination through hard work in real life. Both provide an idea of family dynamics and require students to think critically about the real life examples of determination shown.
Multicultural Perspectives
Many of these books within this text set offer a multicultural perspective for students to engage in. Amazing Grace is from a multicultural perspective of a young African American girl dealing with preserving in school through peoples perspective and judgment of her because of her race and gender. Being a girl and African American her peers think she can’t play the role of Peter Pan in the school play and some make fun of her for even wanting to. This has students think about the perspective of other people that may be racially or culturally different from themselves while exploring how Grace shows perseverance throughout. The stories Tia Isa wants a Car and Jabari Jumps include characters from different races and ethnicities allowing more students to view themselves within a story.
Lesson Descriptions
ELAGSE1RL2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Lesson 4: The next lesson will use the book Flight School. This book being one at a lower level for students to comprehend easier gives them an opportunity to interact in a different way. The teacher will read the book, pausing along the way to have students identify the little penguins use of determination, discussing again after the reading how the penguin was determined and how he ended up meeting his goal. After the goals students came up with yesterday after reading Amazing Grace, have students choose one goal they can make an “action plan” for, coming up with realistic ways they can stay determined to meet their goals like the characters we have seen in our books so far.
Lesson 3: We will then repeat a similar process and lesson with Amazing Grace, this time pointing out that what Grace was determined to do was something in school. After reading the story have students brainstorm on a graphic organizer some of their own strengths and weaknesses emphasizing that school is a place were we all have strengths and weaknesses and that’s okay. Have students identify areas they can persevere and be determined in school in a journal writing, stating what they are determined to grow in and how they can make that happen.
Lesson 1: To start to teach this text set, I would begin with the book “The magical Yet”. I would use this book to link to students that they are many things we all can’t do “yet” but that we still need to keep trying our best and working hard so that eventually we can do those things. This is called determination. For this first lesson we would talk about determination and how we all can be determined. Students will write or draw one thing they can’t do yet, but will stay determined to do by the end of the year.
Lesson 2: The next book we would move to would be Jabari Jumps. This story is easy to pick out Jabari’s determination so students will be able to link these ideas easier. Students will be reminded of what determination is and asked to think about how Jabari was determined and never gave up in the story and what happened because of this. As a connection activity students will write or draw something that they may be scared to do but could use determination and perseverance to get through.
Lesson 5 and 6: The two concluding lessons will be reading the books Tia Isa Wants a Car and A Chair for my Mother. With these stories both being about a family working together towards a goal they are determined to meet, students here will think of something kind they can be determined to do for their families. After each reading, have students summarize and retell the story to each other, monitoring for understanding. Point out how here we see adults being determined and having to make money for what they want menaing they have to save money they make. Make a chart comparing the two stories so students can visually see how both books had characters determined to do something nice for their families. Have students write up an idea with a visual drawing about something they can be determines to do or give to their familes during this holiday season.
Lesson Differentiation
To differentiate the lessons, the teacher may have students respond to the text sets in different ways, with different levels of prompting. Some striving students may need more prompting to recognize how the characters in the story showed determination, asking a student if a specfic thing happened thta showed determination instead of having them produce this on their own. F Another way will be by the product they use to extend their thinking. Some learners may draw a picture to show the extension activity instead of writing the words, some may write a few words rather than whole sentences, and some may be expected to write in 1 or 2 whole sentences with drawings to match
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Text Set- Teachers Guide
READ 3090 Key Assessment
Goals: Students will know the meaning of perseverance. Students will be able to identify examples of perseverance in various texts. Students will be able to explain times where they have persevered or needed perseverance in their own lives.
Multicultural Perspectives : Click here to learn how this set includes global perspectives
Differentiation of text set : Click here to learn how this set is differentiated
Lessons : Click here for lesson descriptions for each book in this set
Lesson differentiation : Click here for how each lesson is differentiated
The Magical Yet
Text Set Book 1
The Magical Yet By: Angela DiTerlizzi This is a fiction picture book with fantasy elements as there is a creature called Yet who helps us learn new things.Yet is with us all the time and this book is about a young girl understanding the power of the magic of yet. It explores all of the things the girl cannot do YET but she can continue to learn and grow to eventually be able to do these things. This is a great book to teach students about persevering , not giving up when they can't do things, recognizing it is only a matter of not being able to YET.
Amazing Grace
Text Set Book 2
Amazing Grace By: Mary Hoffman This is a contemporary fiction book with a highlight on diversity. In this book, a young girl learns to believe in herself and keep trying even when other people doubt her or discourage her. This book is told from the point of view of a young African American girl who has to overcome people saying she couldn’t do something because of her race and gender. Amazing Grace is wonderful book students can easily connect with and view as a time of determination, being in a school setting they are all familiar with.
Jabari Jumps
Text Set Book 3
Jabari Jumps By: Gaia Cornwall Jabari is a young boy who is scared to jump off the high dive, the story follows him as he finds the perseverance to jump and face his fears. In this story, the main character Jabari faces his fears through determination and by the end jumps off of the high dive. In this book, students can easily identify the fear Jabari got over and see how he didn't give up. Jabari Jumps is also a multicurltural book being written by and including characters who are African American, allowing more students to see themselves in literature.
Tia Isa Wants a Car
Text Set Book 4
Tia Isa Wants a Car By: Mey Medina Tia Isa keeps working and saving money to buy a car to take her family on vacation. This story shows determination in a different light than the other books in this text set. This story features an adult character showing determination for something that she wants that she has to work for. Rather than showing a simple matter of perservering, this story is about repeated determination to work for something that you want.
Flight School
Text Set Book 5
Flight School By: Lita Judge This book is about a little penguin who is determined to fly against all odds. He sees other birds flying and wonders why not me. In the book, the little penguin joins a flight school and struggles to learn and keep up with his classmates. Despite these struggles, he never gives up. By the end of the story with his determination and use of a mix of machines and random parts, he is able to make his dream of flying come true. This book provides a different view of determination, this time with animal characters and an easy to follow storyline.
A Chair for My Mother
Text Set Book 6
A Chair for my Mother By: Vera B Williams This story is a Caldecott award honor book. This story follows Rosa, her Grandmom and her Mother saving money to buy a new chair for them after a fire burns everything in thier home. The books follows them as they work hard to earn money, staying determined to save enough. By the end, Rosa has worked hard and is able to help buy a comfortable chair that her mother can relax in after working hard all day at work. This book shows a family dynamic that many kids can relate to and understand working hard and having motivation to do something nice for your mother.
Differentiation
This text set is differentiated by both level and interests. Books like Jabari Jumps, Flight School, and the Magical Yet are on grade level for first graders, having a clear easy to follow story line and themes that are less complex to comprehend. The Magical Yet and Flight School both have fantasy elements and less realism that is sure to enagge and excite students. The story Amazing Grace is a realistic fiction story set in a school, an environment students will all relate to while providing a higher reading level for students to be exposed to. The books Tia Isa Wants a Car and A Chair for my Mother are both stories with higher reading levels that are examples of determination through hard work in real life. Both provide an idea of family dynamics and require students to think critically about the real life examples of determination shown.
Multicultural Perspectives
Many of these books within this text set offer a multicultural perspective for students to engage in. Amazing Grace is from a multicultural perspective of a young African American girl dealing with preserving in school through peoples perspective and judgment of her because of her race and gender. Being a girl and African American her peers think she can’t play the role of Peter Pan in the school play and some make fun of her for even wanting to. This has students think about the perspective of other people that may be racially or culturally different from themselves while exploring how Grace shows perseverance throughout. The stories Tia Isa wants a Car and Jabari Jumps include characters from different races and ethnicities allowing more students to view themselves within a story.
Lesson Descriptions
ELAGSE1RL2: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Lesson 4: The next lesson will use the book Flight School. This book being one at a lower level for students to comprehend easier gives them an opportunity to interact in a different way. The teacher will read the book, pausing along the way to have students identify the little penguins use of determination, discussing again after the reading how the penguin was determined and how he ended up meeting his goal. After the goals students came up with yesterday after reading Amazing Grace, have students choose one goal they can make an “action plan” for, coming up with realistic ways they can stay determined to meet their goals like the characters we have seen in our books so far.
Lesson 3: We will then repeat a similar process and lesson with Amazing Grace, this time pointing out that what Grace was determined to do was something in school. After reading the story have students brainstorm on a graphic organizer some of their own strengths and weaknesses emphasizing that school is a place were we all have strengths and weaknesses and that’s okay. Have students identify areas they can persevere and be determined in school in a journal writing, stating what they are determined to grow in and how they can make that happen.
Lesson 1: To start to teach this text set, I would begin with the book “The magical Yet”. I would use this book to link to students that they are many things we all can’t do “yet” but that we still need to keep trying our best and working hard so that eventually we can do those things. This is called determination. For this first lesson we would talk about determination and how we all can be determined. Students will write or draw one thing they can’t do yet, but will stay determined to do by the end of the year.
Lesson 2: The next book we would move to would be Jabari Jumps. This story is easy to pick out Jabari’s determination so students will be able to link these ideas easier. Students will be reminded of what determination is and asked to think about how Jabari was determined and never gave up in the story and what happened because of this. As a connection activity students will write or draw something that they may be scared to do but could use determination and perseverance to get through.
Lesson 5 and 6: The two concluding lessons will be reading the books Tia Isa Wants a Car and A Chair for my Mother. With these stories both being about a family working together towards a goal they are determined to meet, students here will think of something kind they can be determined to do for their families. After each reading, have students summarize and retell the story to each other, monitoring for understanding. Point out how here we see adults being determined and having to make money for what they want menaing they have to save money they make. Make a chart comparing the two stories so students can visually see how both books had characters determined to do something nice for their families. Have students write up an idea with a visual drawing about something they can be determines to do or give to their familes during this holiday season.
Lesson Differentiation
To differentiate the lessons, the teacher may have students respond to the text sets in different ways, with different levels of prompting. Some striving students may need more prompting to recognize how the characters in the story showed determination, asking a student if a specfic thing happened thta showed determination instead of having them produce this on their own. F Another way will be by the product they use to extend their thinking. Some learners may draw a picture to show the extension activity instead of writing the words, some may write a few words rather than whole sentences, and some may be expected to write in 1 or 2 whole sentences with drawings to match