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Pre- Assessment- After assessing students via the Kahoot game. Students will be broken up into three groups to further their knowledge on the topic of "Being a Good Friend." After a week of diving deeper into the subject the actual unit curriculum will start and students should be fully prepared.
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Group 1: The 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly
- Explores web games that revolve around friendship
- Play the “Yarn Web Game.”
• Have students stand in a circle.
• One student will hold the end of a ball of yarn, toss the ball of yarn across the circle to
another student, and give a compliment to the person who catches the yarn.
• Continue until each student is holding yarn and a web has been formed.
• Talk about how each person is important and is needed to form the web.
• Take a few students away and drop their yarn to show that everyone is needed. • All must be included to work as a team.
- Listen to books about friendship on storylineonline.net and summarize and write about what they heard and present it to their peers
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Group 2: The 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills
- Pull a small group do a picture walk and have students come up with questions they want to know about friendship based on the pictures they've seen before reading the book.
- Complete worksheets “Wanted: Good Friend, “ and “Good Friends Math Problem”
• Brainstorm what makes a good friend.
• Use the “Wanted: Good Friend” worksheet and have students make an advertisement.
- Listen to books about friendship on storylineonline.net and write about one characteristic they heard that made the character a good friend.
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Group 3: The 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic
- Learn and sing the “Friendship Song.”
- Pull a small and go over the definition of friendship. Make an anchor chart of characteristics of a good and bad friend
- Read a book about friendship
• Write the word “FRIEND” on the board and have students brainstorm characteristics of a friend. Write the ideas around the word “FRIEND.”