Book: The Family Book, Todd Parr, 2003

Grade Level: Elementary - Kindergarten

Multicultural Theme: Diverse family makeups

Materials: The book The Family Book by Todd Parr, paper with the sentence
“My family is ____.” printed on the bottom, pencils, and crayons.

Standard(s):

1. CCSS. ELA – Literacy. R. L K.4 Ask and answer questions about

unknown words in a text.
2. CCSS ELA – Literacy. W. K. 2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating,
and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name
what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
3. CCSS ELA – Literacy. S&L. K. 4. Describe familiar people, places, things,
and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

Objective: Students will be able to recognize different family makeups and

describe their personal family makeup by drawing a picture and writing a
sentence about their family with 80% accuracy.

Procedure

Introduce: Show students the book The Family Book. Ask them “What
are some things you notice about the picture on this book? What do you think is
going to happen in this book?” Tell them that this book is called The Family Book
and that today you are going to learn all about different kinds of families.

Read: The teacher will read the book aloud to the whole class.

Discuss: What happened in the book?

 Question 1: Are all families the same?
 Question 2: Were any of these families like yours?
 Question 3: What is one thing that wasn’t like your
family?
 Question 4: What does the word “adopt” mean?
(Teach them the word if they do not know.)
 Question 5: What is something the book told us all
families like to do together?
Activities:
 Working independently, students will draw a picture of
their family (who lives with them) on their papers.
When they finish drawing their picture, they will
complete the sentence “My family is ____.” They may
just fill in a single word or write more.
 As soon as all students have completed their pictures
and sentences, they will form small groups (work with
tablemates if able) and take turns sharing their picture
and sentence about their families.

Evaluation: The teacher will check to see that all students drew a picture
and completed their sentence. The teacher will walk around and monitor
students as they present to each other.