We love using read alouds to teach students about different families and diversity. Students love sharing personal stories about their own families. The book The Relatives Came is a great way to do this. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
The relatives in The Relatives Came travel a long way from Virginia to visit with their family. When they get there, everyone is very excited to see each other. There is lots of hugging, laughing, and smiling.
The relatives stay for many weeks and their family welcomes them into their home. The relatives do many things during their visit such as tend the garden, fix items, and play music. The relatives and their family are sad when it is time for them to go, but know that they will be back again next summer.
Students will enjoy this story about what happens when relatives visit, and will make connections to their own lives and their families.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
We think the following skills are great to teach using the book The Relatives Came.
- Practice making personal connections to the story. This is a great way to strengthen students' comprehension of the story.
- Help students practice their visualizing skills throughout the book.
- Ask students to write their opinions on traveling in a car like the characters.
- Integrate poetry by having students write poems about their families.
- Teach students about possessive nouns.
- Introduce students to new suffixes using examples from the book.
- Use the book as an opportunity to discuss transitions.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
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- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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