| I Pledge Allegiance: A Poem For All | This is lesson #7 of the text unit series I Pledge Allegiance by Bill Martin Jr and Michael Sampson. Students will read the Pledge of Allegiance as a poem while learning the vocabulary and examples of stanzas and line breaks within the poem. Students will create an American flag with the poem on the stripes. Using their new created Flag, the teacher will teach the proper way of folding the flag and the proper ways of caring for the flag .
This unit will help students identify or explain rights and responsibilities in their school community, ways to show respect during the Pledge of Allegiance, symbols of the United States, symbols that represent Florida, and demonstrate characteristics of responsible decision-making. Students will engage in a read aloud over several days with lessons that emphasize text features, vocabulary, central idea, and similarities and differences between information provided visually and within text. In addition, the teacher will facilitate research, students' presentations, and artwork as activities to help students demonstrate their knowledge of respect for the Pledge of Allegiance.
This resource uses a book that is on the Florida Department of Education's reading list. This book is not provided with this resource. |
| A Close Reading of The Little Red Hen | In this lesson, the students will listen to the teacher read aloud the folk tale The Little Red Hen. The students will collaborate with their teacher and peers during a close reading in order to determine the story elements and the moral or lesson that the story teaches. The students will work in pairs to describe the characteristics of the Little Red Hen and write a sentence about it. |
| Who Will Win? A Race Between the Tortoise and the Hare | In this lesson, the students will listen to the teacher read aloud the fable The Tortoise and the Hare. The students will play a story cube game to record the story elements of the beloved fable, study the main characters, and write an opinion piece on which character they would be friends with and what they would do. |
