Assessment (5 minutes)
Walk around as your students draw or write about their family members. Encourage them to use
complete sentences. Provide sentence stems, such as:
"This is my ____."
"My ____ is..."
" ____ is at..."
"This family member likes to..."
Make sure that your students write, draw, or discuss how each family member has an important role in
the family. Remind them that no two family members are alike! A sentence stem can say, "____ helps the
family by..."
Review and closing (10 minutes)
Have everyone turn and talk to their partner to share their family books aloud. Tell them to clearly
express their feelings and ideas about the people, places, and things in their family books.
Choose a few student volunteers to present their family books to the class. Remind students to share
specific details, like how the family members help each other, what events they participate in together,
and any specific places or details special to their family.
After everyone has shared, ask your students to describe how families are different.
