Libby's Firsties

This Social Studies Unit not only teaches students about rules, laws, and members of their community, but it also helps to build a community within in your classroom! There are a variety of activities that include: Read Aloud Lesson plans, Emergent Readers, Sorts, Response pages, Craftivities and more! 70 Pages Total! Here is an outline of topics covered:What are Rules? Vocabulary PostersClassroom Rules Anchor Chart SetThe Most Important RuleWhat If Everybody Did That? ResponseWe Don't Eat our C

Use this organizer to help your students visualize that their brain is where all their prior knowledge is stored. This is called schema. Schema helps us think, infer, and understand!

This graphic organizer is a great tool to introduce students to inferring about characters and their actions. I recommend starting with the mentor text "No, David!" to discuss the actions of the character and what could or does happen as a result (as the example on the page). You could use while reading by stopping to allow students to write their inferences about characters as the teacher reads aloud.

This is a great tool for establishing classroom rules and integrating writing. Students will choose a rule that is important in the classroom. They will then explain why this rule is important. Use this to lead discussions in stretching out sounds in words, making pictures match your writing, etc.