Whom Does He Look Like?

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Title:

Whom Does He Look Like?

URL:

https://www.readworks.org/article/Whom-Does-He-Look-Like/46ac94c0-f30d-49b0-9ba4-eb5cdb566580#!articleTab:content/

Content Source:

Other
ReadWorks.org
Type: Learning Activity

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.

Content Standard(s):
Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 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).


Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.1.7-Identify similarities and differences between parents and offspring in animals.


English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
R3. Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
21. Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
22. Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.
Tags: grandma, grandpa, informational fiction text, offspring, parent, relative
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Comments

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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Author: Hannah Bradley