I Am Special � What makes me special?
Students explore the inquiry question by recognizing personal interests, strengths, and accomplishments. Opportunities for oral language and playful learning are woven throughout as students discuss what is special about themselves, draw their special characteristics, use stick puppets to re-enact a story, and make masks to discuss who they are. Working with Words lessons accompany each Shared Reading text, and a text-type writing study invites students to draw and describe what is special about themselves.
Read Aloud � I Like Myself!
Fiction: Description � Rhyming Account
A humorous rhyming account of a girl who, no matter what others think of her, likes herself because, as she says, 'I'm ME!'
Partner-Shared Reading Texts
These Partner-Shared reading texts can develop students' understanding of who they are, what they can do, and what they like about themselves.
See What We Can Do! Fiction: Narrative � Rhyming Poem
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
A scrapbook explores what is special about each of a group of children by sharing what they can do well.
Benny's Special Day
Non-fiction: Description � Scrapbook
- 1 Big Book
- 6 small book versions
A rhyming poem describes a dog who doesn't think that he's special until he meets some new friends who teach him how special he really is.
Audio CD
Audio CD with fluent readings of Benny's Special Day and See What We Can Do!
DVD
DVD digital versions of the two Shared Reading texts, Benny's Special Day and See What We Can Do!
Teaching Guide � print and online
Includes support for launching the inquiry, using the Read Aloud and Shared Reading texts, ELL support, large and small letter cards BLMs, Working with Words BLM, the text-type writing study of a descriptive label, assessment rubric for writing a descriptive label, student self-assessment, inquiry assessment, Oral Language Assessment Scale, as well as book handling and print tracking assessment.