At a Glance:
| Grades: | 4, 5 |
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| Subject: | SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) |
| Topic: | Routines |
| Lesson Length: | 20 - 30 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will organize panels in the sample comic in the order of their own morning routines.
What should students know before this activity?
Students should understand the meaning of routines and why they are important.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Discuss the importance of routines.
- How many of you have a morning routine?
- How do those routines make us successful?
What will students do?
- Display the sample comic.
- Have students reorder the comic panels to match their own morning routine.
- Have students create a comic showing themselves completing a personal routine.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Ask the students to share their personal routine comics in small groups or with a partner. Have them compare their routines:
- Is any routine better? Why or why not?
- How do routines help us with being successful in school?
- What if you changed a routine you already have, would that make you feel a certain way? Would it be better?
- What are some different routines we’d like to add to our day to help us be more successful?
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
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Print and cut the sample comic into individual panels, and have students sort the panels based on their routine.
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Provide sentence frames for discussion questions.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Related Resources:
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Comic to print or display: Comic.
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Suggested Reading:
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Same, Same But Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki Shaw.
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