Elementary Education Program

Department of Teacher Education & Learning Sciences

Lesson Plan

Name: Cris Thompson

Grade: K
Topic/Concept: Family
 Materials/Resources:
 Paper for drawing with lines to write sentences
 Pencil
 Crayons
 A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary

Teaching Behavior Focus:

The behavior focus will be “family can be made up many kinds of people” and to emphasize that
families don’t always fit a certain mold. During the read aloud, I want to encourage students to
share what their family I like in relation to the story with questions like, “does anyone have a
family similar to this?”

Learning Objectives (measurable):

Students will be able to name the various members a family can have.
Students will be able to identify the many make ups of a family.
Students will be able to define the term family.

Standards:
K.C.1 Understand how individuals are similar and different.
K.C.1.1 Explain similarities in self and others.

Assessment Plan (How will you know that your students met the objective?):

New Vocabulary:
o Family - a group of people that consists of parents and children living together in
a household
o Diversity - the inclusion of different types of people
o Design - to create, fashion, execute, or construct
o Compare - estimate, measure, or note the similarity or dissimilarity between
o Label - a classifying phrase or name applied to a person or thing
o Illustrate - explain or make (something) clear by using examples, charts, pictures
o Read Aloud – the act of reading a story out loud to an individual or small group.

Note: A detailed lesson plan is specific enough for another teacher to read and teach
effectively. There should not be any question regarding what to do or how to do it.

Lesson Development (hook/engage/launch, step by step in real time, include questions you will
ask in real time, closure/revisiting learning objectives):
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Department of Teacher Education & Learning Sciences

1. Have the students sit on the carpet facing the teacher’s chair.
2. Ask them if they would like to share anything fun about the break.
3. Transition to talking about family, ask questions like, “what is a family?” and then “what
kind of people are in families?” students should respond with terms like “Mom”, “Dad”,
“Brothers”, etc.
4. After the students answer, introduce the book A Family is a Family is a Family by Sara
O’Leary and begin reading to the class.
5. As you read, be sure to ask every now and then if students have families like the children
in the book.
6. When you finish reading the book, ask the prompt the teacher asks the students “what
something that makes your family special?”
7. After they answer, pass out sheets of paper to the students, have them sit at tables, and
their task is to draw a picture of the people that make up their family and to write one
sentence that describes it with the sentence starter “My family is…”