Expressing Myself � How can I express myself?
Students explore the inquiry question by considering how they can express themselves and their feelings through oral language, body language, movement, music, and art. Opportunities for oral language activities and playful learning are intermingled throughout the unit as students discuss their feelings and how they express themselves, create art, sing songs, move like animals, and draw themselves being happy. Working with Words lessons accompany each shared reading text and a text-type study invites student to write a list poem about what makes them happy.
Read Aloud � (the dot)
Fiction: Narrative � realistic story
Involves a teacher who builds confidence in a student so that she can be creative and express herself.
Partner-Shared Reading Texts
These Partner-Shared Reading texts can develop and extend students' understanding of voice and perspective, and help them to think critically.
Move Like the Animals Non-fiction: Descriptive Questions
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
Invites students to express how they feel when they take on the actions of an animal.
Happiness Fiction: List Poem
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
A poem lists five things that make the author happy and provides a sample for a text-type writing study.
Audio CD
Audio CD with fluent readings of Move Like the Animals and Happiness.
DVD
DVD digital versions of the two Shared Reading texts, Move Like the Animals and Happiness.
Teaching Guide � print and online
Includes support for launching the inquiry, using the Read Aloud and Shared Reading texts, the text-type writing study of a list poem, ELL support, assessment rubrics, student self-assessment, large and small letter card BLMS, Working with Words BLM, inquiry assessment, Oral Language Assessment Scale, as well as book handling and print tracking assessment.
Also includes ideas for further inquiry and extending the inquiry.