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Classroom Resource

Whom Does He Look Like?

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Science

Grade(s)

1

Overview

The teacher will present an informational fiction text from the website, ReadWorks. The students and teacher can interact with this non-fiction text by annotating the text digitally. The students will answer the questions associated with the article as an assessment. This learning activity would be useful to introduce students to the concept parents and their offspring have similarities and differences in their appearance.

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.R3

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.R3

Vocabulary

  • Background knowledge
  • Vocabulary
  • Discussion

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Relating experiences through discussions, writing, and reading will help build background knowledge and improve vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Connect new concepts to prior experiences to increase background knowledge through discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Construct the meaning of words through discussions, reading, and writing.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Background knowledge can increase by relating experiences to new ideas, topics, and words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
  • Vocabulary will increase by constructing the meaning of words while participating in discussions, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.21

Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.21

Vocabulary

  • Identify
  • Main topic
  • Key details
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Main topic of literary and informational texts.
  • Key details of literary and informational texts.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify the main topic of literary and informational texts.
  • Identify key details of literary and informational texts.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational texts have a main idea and supporting details.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

ELA21.1.22

Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.1.22

Vocabulary

  • Ask
  • Answer
  • Questions
  • Key details
  • Literary texts
  • Informational texts

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Key details are present in literary and informational text.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Ask questions about key details in a literary and informational text.
  • Answer questions about key details in a literary and informational text.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational text include key details that must be understood to comprehend the text.
  • After reading a text, knowledge and understanding can be expanded by asking and answering questions.
Science (2015) Grade(s): 1

SC15.1.7

Make observations to identify the similarities and differences of offspring to their parents and to other members of the same species (e.g., flowers from the same kind of plant being the same shape, but differing in size; dog being same breed as parent, but differing in fur color or pattern).

Unpacked Content

UP:SC15.1.7

Vocabulary

  • identify
  • observation
  • similarities
  • differences
  • offspring
  • parents
  • members
  • species
  • evidence
  • pattern

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Young animals are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.
  • Plants are very much, but not exactly, like their parents.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Use observations as evidence to identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring and between offspring and other members of the same species.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Patterns can be used as evidence that individuals of the same kind of plant or animal are recognizable as similar but can also vary in many ways.

Scientific and Engineering Practices

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Crosscutting Concepts

Patterns
Link to Resource
https://www.readworks.org/article/Whom-Does-He-Look-Like/46ac94c0-f30d-49b0-9ba…

CR Resource Type

Learning Activity

Resource Provider

Other

Resource Provider other

ReadWorks.org
Accessibility
License

License Type

CUSTOM

Custom License Type (URL)

https://about.readworks.org/terms-of-use.html

Comments or Notes

ReadWorks is a website that provides K-12 teachers with free literacy resources (About ReadWorks). ReadWorks has literary and informational texts on a variety of subjects and reading skills. You may narrow your search using grade level or Lexile level, making this website a wonderful tool for differentiation. Students will complete their work digitally, and you will provide their score and feedback digitally. This makes it easy to go paperless for this activity.

Prior to implementing this activity, you will need to sign up for an Educator Account on ReadWorks. After setting up an account, create a class from the Class Admin tab, this will provide you with a Class Code to give to students. Next, use the Find Content tab to search for the informational article that will be used during this activity, "Whom Does He Look Like?" After navigating to the article, click on the blue Assign button to assign it to your class.

Each student will need access to a digital device, such as a tablet or laptop. The first time students enter the website they will need to enter the Class Code that is listed on your Class Admin page. Alternatively, you can print the article and corresponding questions for students, if digital devices are not available. The teacher could also complete this activity by projecting the article and questions for the whole class to view.

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