Learning Fairness from a Nonfiction Text
Grade
Grade 1
UNIT
7
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Fairness
Unit 7, Lesson 2, “Learning Fairness from a Nonfiction Text,” reinforces the vocabulary word fairness. Students will read a nonfiction text that shows how a real person demonstrated fairness. Additionally, students will practice their reading comprehension skills by reading independently and hearing a reading from the teacher. Finally, students will create their own sentences that demonstrate their reading comprehension and share their sentences with a classmate.
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SUGGESTED TIME:
20 minutes
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Practice reading aloud to develop reading comprehension skills
- Spell, define, and give an example of fairness
- Compose 3 sentences that demonstrate comprehension of the word fairness
- Demonstrate understanding of standard English sentence structure and grammar
- Practice reading and conversation skills by sharing sentences with classmates
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
- A piece of blank paper for each student
- Crayons or markers for each student
- Tape for each student to tape up their poster
- Video: Jaylen’s Challenge - News Segment by Jaylen’s Challenge (~2 min)
- Prohuman Grade 1 Unit 7 Worksheet 2: Learning Fairness from a Nonfiction Text
VOCABULARY:
- Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.
ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET
CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET
LESSON PROCEDURE
Today we will continue to learn about fairness.
- Write fairness on the board.
- Ask students to spell fairness on their worksheets.
- Ask students what we learned about fairness last time.
- Play the video Jaylen’s Challenge (~2 min)
- Have students read the nonfiction text on their worksheets independently, quietly to themselves. Circle the room to support the students.
- After giving the students 10 minutes to practice reading, read the worksheet text aloud to the whole class.
- Ask students to complete their worksheets.
- Have students take turns sharing their sentences with a partner.
- Activity: Show the students Jaylen’s posters about why it is important to stop bullying at school. Have students each make a poster by drawing a picture that shows kids being nice to each other. Write choices of words they can write at the top on the board for them to copy on their posters such as:
Be Nice at School
Be Kind at School
Make Friends at School
We Care About Our Friends
School is a Place for Friends
School is a Place of Kindness
When students are finished, take them on a (quiet) walk through the school and have them choose a place to tape their posters.
GRADE 1 UNIT 7 WORKSHEET 2: LEARNING FAIRNESS FROM A NONFICTION TEXT
Fairness: I treat everyone the same. If someone has been left out, I bring them in.
Write the word fairness:
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NONFICTION TEXT: JAYLEN’S FAIRNESS
Jaylen Arnold is a differently abled kid who was bullied by other kids. Being bullied, or bullying, means that one person seeks to hurt another person. Jaylen didn’t let bullying stop him. He wanted to fight back with words, rather than with fists or name-calling. Jaylen is changing the world through his challenge. He wants everyone to treat each other with fairness and put an end to bullying.
When Jaylen was eight years old, he created a group called Jaylen’s Challenge to help teach kids that bullying other kids is wrong. Jaylen tours the country speaking to kids and spreading the message: “Bullying: No way!” He helps kids to understand that it is very important to treat everyone with fairness and to never bully anyone.
Source: Jaylen’s Challenge website: https://www.jaylenschallenge.org/
ACTIVITY:
Write 1 sentence that explains how Jaylen showed fairness.
Write 1 sentence that explains how Jaylen’s fairness helped other people.
What does it mean to follow the “Golden Rule”?
Write 1 sentence about how you can show fairness.
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