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Role Models

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify heroes by researching their family history. In this personal heritage lesson, 1st graders define the term "hero" and the characteristics that represent it. Students research family resources and family trees in...
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Reading Questions: Alex Haley's "My Furthest Back Person: The African"

For Students 8th - 12th
Based on Alex Haley's moving essay "My Furthest Back Person: The African," these 11 questions support comprehension and prepare readers for discussion of the text. Use this tool, and the essay, as a nonfiction addition to units on...
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We’re a Family: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers K Standards
Teach your English language learners how to talk about their families with three weeks of lessons. Over the course of the thematic unit, learners pick up new vocabulary so that they can talk about families and relationships, clothing,...
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Family Quilts Keep us Warm

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore families and culture. In this family and culture lesson, students discuss their families and their similarities and differences. Students read the book The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco and create their own quilt...
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Family Foodways

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Discover, document and share the knowledge of family food and ways special occasions are treated. Your class will explore the context in which food traditions are created and adapted in their families and communities. Each student also...
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Family and Friends: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Family and Friends is the theme of a unit offering extra support lessons. Follow each lesson plan's teach, blend, guided practice or practice/apply routine to reinforce concepts such as clusters, responding to reading, drawing...
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ASL Lesson 4

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Provide your hearing-impaired or special-needs students with a functional ASL vocabulary focused on feelings and family. Lesson 4 in this extensive series allows you to view both images and videos of each word or sentence as it is...
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School-Home Links: Describe Your Family

For Students 1st - 2nd
Choose a familiar topic to practice writing. A prompt is given asking learners to write two complete sentences that describe their families. Pointers are written at the bottom to help writers check that they started each sentence with a...
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Family Member Missing Letters Worksheet

For Students K - 2nd
In this missing letters worksheet, students examine the 6 family member words that are missing letters and fill in the blanks in each of the words with the appropriate letters.
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Family Picture Sentences 2

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this Family Picture Sentences 2 worksheet, students answer 5 questions by locating the sentence which bests describes the activity in the picture. All sentences involve families doing different activities.
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My Family

For Teachers Pre-K
Students examine the different kinds of families. In this family instructional activity, students discuss who is in their family, talk about how families should treat each other and how they feel about their family. Students make posters...
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A Conventional Family

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore writing techniques by analyzing their own families. In this family values lesson, students view the film "The Incredibles" in class and discuss the different types of modern-day families. Students write about their...
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The Family: Louisiana Family Folklore

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners explore and identify family treasures and research the history to each one. They also organize a variety of artifacts into various categories and research traditional Louisiana artifacts online. Each student draws inferences...
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Family Shield

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this family shield learning exercise, students design a family shield. Students include the greatest accomplishment of their family and three things they are good at.
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The Relatives Came Family Read-Along

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders brainstorm on what they believe they do on their summer vacation. They explore how family and relatives are important in their lives. They read along with their teacher a book about relatives.
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Travel Through Time with a Family Member

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners interview a family member. In this interviewing lesson, students choose a family member to interview and write about. Learners create a PowerPoint about the person including a timeline, photographs, and a narrative about their...
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The Family

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online/interactive identifying pictures of family members worksheet, students observe pictures of individuals and choose their identity from the pop-up menus and complete a crossword of family words. Students answer 16 questions. 
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Depicting Motherhood in Family Stories

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine the roles of mothers and grandmothers by looking at black-and-white photographs of one American family and comparing that family's multi-generational story with their own. In this mothers and grandmothers lesson plan,...
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Family Members: Your Relatives

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this family member worksheet, students solve the 14 clues at the bottom of the page to complete the family member crossword puzzle.
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Organizer
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Role Playing: Family

For Students 4th - 7th
Provided here is a script called A Very Big Family! Use it for two things. First, get your English language learners up and speaking English. Providing them with a script and plenty of practice time will ensure reading fluency. Also,...
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Family And Friends

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore and practice how to answer question forms and to use key vocabulary about family and friends. They assess how to find out more about each other's friends and families by completing a worksheet full of questions to ask...
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It's All in the Family with Mother's & Father's Day

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students interview family members to make a family tree for a Mother's or Father's Day card. In this family tree lesson plan, students read Love You Forever and discuss love within families. Students view Genealogy Resources on the...
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Family History

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create photographic family histories. In this technology skills lesson, students create family trees with digital photographs that they take of the family members.
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The Role of The Family

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students talk about the importance and roles of family.  In this family lesson, students define family, identify functions of the family, discuss the importance of family, and brainstorm ways they can contribute to their families.

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