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Art By Elio
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Who Will I Play With?

Help Leo solve his problem. Leo wants to make new friends but isn’t sure how.

By Janice Behrens
From the September 2022 Issue
Lexiles: 240L
Guided Reading Level: I
Featured Skill: Main Idea,
Topic: SEL,
Common Core Standards
  • RF.1.1 Features of print RL.1.1 Key details RL.1.4 Identify feeling words RL.1.10 Read grade-1 prose SL.1.1 Discuss grade-1 texts
TEKS Standards
  • Health
    (3) Health Behaviors. The student demonstrates basic critical-thinking, decision-making, goal setting, and problem-solving skills for making health-promoting decisions. The student is expected to: (B) describe how decisions can be reached and problems can be solved. (10) Personal/Interpersonal skills. The student comprehends the skills necessary for building and maintaining healthy relationships. The student is expected to: (A) describe ways to build and maintain friendships.

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Sticky Situation: Who Will I Play With?

By Janice Behrens

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About the Story

Social-emotional Learning Focus

Relationship skills

Making friends

English Language Arts Focus 

Genres of literature

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION

The essential question of this issue is How Can We Be Brave? The articles below connect to this theme.

  • Big Read-Aloud: “Dogs to the Rescue,” p. 10
  • Word Play: “Ways to Say Brave,” p. 16
  • Mini Graphic: “Sticky Situation: Who Will I Play With?,” p. 17
  • Fiction: “My Name Is Zahara,” p. 24
  • Poetry: “Brave Night,” p. 32

Through the above genres, students will discuss:

  • What do the people (and animals!) in these stories do that is brave?
  • When have you been brave?
  • What happens when we are brave?

1. IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS

Morning Meeting

  • If you use your morning meeting to build your classroom community, this mini graphic can be a great conversation starter.

Whole Group Activity

  • Another suggestion is to read “Who Will I Play With?” during a whole-class read aloud. Once you’ve read and discussed the story together, have children act out the different parts.

1. BEFORE READING

Show a Video (10 minutes)

  • This video teaches children about the features of a comic, or graphic novel.
  • After watching, draw the features of a comic on chart paper. The features in the video are panels, speech bubbles, and thought bubbles. See if children can tell you what each one is for.

 

Set a Purpose for Reading (5 minutes)

  • Open your magazines to the story. Ask: What kind of story is this (a comic, or a graphic novel)? How do they know?
  • Tell children they will read about a boy named Leo. As they read, they can think about his problem and what he should do.

2. READ THE STORY (10-15 MINUTES)

  • Model reading the dialogue with expression. Check comprehension as you read each panel. Ask children what they can tell from the pictures.
  • Discuss the Talk It Out! questions as a class.

3. AFTER READING

SEL Focus: My Bravery Story (15 minutes)

  • Children can share a story about when they were brave. (This skills page also goes with other stories in the issue.)

SEL Focus: Relationship Skills (10 minutes)

  • Let children “finish” the story with What Should Leo Say?

SEL Focus: Relationship Skills (10 minutes)

  • The Finish the Story skills page allows you to provide the same content at a lower skill level.

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