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American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands Lesson PlanAmerican Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands Lesson Plan
Publisher
American Forum for Global Education
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3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Lexile Measures
1060L
Lesson Plan

American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands

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This lesson from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

communication

Additional Tags

cultural differences, gesturing, group communication, human culture, messages, multi-cultural, nonverbal communication, nonverbal gestures, american forum for global ed: talking with our hands, c1. 1.b identify verbal and nonverbal cues representing feelings in others, drama with primary students, group problem solve, language and communication, nonverbal communication patterns, social studies

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

CCRA.SL.1 SL.4.3 SL.5.3 SL.3.1.b SL.5.1.b SL.4.1.b SL.3.1.c

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