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Kindergarten Text Set on Sharing and Working Together

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Kindergarten Text Set on Sharing and Working Together

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This unit was created to explore how to be a good friend through sharing and working together, using narrative, predictable, and informational text.

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Good friends:

Share with eachother

Take turns nicely

Work together

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The following Tier 2 (Neuman & Wright, 2010) vocabulary were chosen for this text set. These vocabulary are considered Tier 2 due to the fact that they may be found across subjects, but do not necessarily come up in daily conversation.
Sharing: letting someone else use something that you are using, or using it together
Taking Turns: one person goes and finishes, then the next person goes and finishes
Patient: staying calm when you have to wait
Team: a group of people who work or play together
Teamwork: working together to get a job done, with each person getting to do something

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How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

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How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

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This predictive, lyrical text will start the unit with basic concepts on how NOT to play with friends. Each page rhymes a situation asking if this is a good way for dinosaurs to play with their friends, in which students have the chance to verbally responds "no!" after each page. This book will help students get involved with the lesson through responding, and begins with simple play examples of not sharing or taking turns.
(Sharing page 3, Taking Turns page 8)

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Share and Take Turns by Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed.

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Share and Take Turns by Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed.

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This informational (narrative) text goes through examples at home and at school of ways to share and take turns. Following the reading of this book, students could break-up into groups and practice taking turns and sharing through playing board games and having free choice time with toys. The teacher should monitor these activities and give specific verbal praise students successfully share and take turns.
(Sharing page 5, playing together as a Team with Teamwork page 8, Taking Turns page 10, waiting for turn and being Patient page 11)

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This fiction text is about a fish who learns to share his sparkly scales, which matter most to him, in order to make friends. Activities following this text can include students writing on a scale their favorite item that they would share with friends, students spending two minutes swapping scales with each other after they are decorated to imitate sharing, and then all scales put together on a wall in the classroom to make one fish. Bringing all the scales together will help in discussing the final big idea: teamwork.
(Sharing page 22)

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Teamwork Isn't My Thing and I Don't Like to Share! by Julia Cool

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Teamwork Isn't My Thing and I Don't Like to Share! by Julia Cool

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In this informational text about sharing and teamwork, the main character, RJ learns about teamwork through the definition of sharing and the idea that every person has a role when working as a team. Examples of working as a team and sharing in sports, in the classroom, and at home are given. This text set on sharing and working as a team will be concluded with a teamwork activity, in which the class goes to the gym and plays soccer (like RJ) with everyone having a different "job" or position. Specific praise will be given when students share the ball, take turns in different positions, and complete their "job" so the team as a whole is successful.
(Sharing page 1, Team page 2, Patient page 19, Teamwork page 24)

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NYSDE Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Benchmarks

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NYSDE Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Benchmarks

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This text set was developed with the third goal of the NYSDE SEL Benchmarks in mind, which involves cooperating and collaborating with others (2018). Kindergarten students are expected to make positive decisions when they interact with their peers, and perform roles that contribute to the classroom overall (New York State Department of Education, 2018). It should be noted that social emotional skills in kindergarten are predictors for graduating, completing college, and maintaining a full-time job (Jones, Greenberg, & Crowley, 2015). Additionally, social emotional skills decrease emotional distress, help students be more engaged, and improve academic achievement (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011).

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Cook, J. (2012) Teamwork Isn’t My Thing and I Don’t Like to Share. Boys Town, NE: Boys Town Press.

Durlak, J. A., Weissberg, R. P., Dymnicki, A. B., Taylor, R. D. & Schellinger, K. B.
(2011). The impact of enhancing students’ social and emotional learning: A meta-analysis of school- based universal interventions. Child Development, 82(1): 405–432.

Jones, D.E., Greenberg, M. & Crowley, M. (2015). Early Social-Emotional Functioning and Public Health: The Relationship Between Kindergarten Social Competence and Future Wellness. American Journal of Public Health: November 2015, Vol. 105, No. 11, pp. 2283-2290. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302630

Meiners, C. J. (2003). Share and Take Turns. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, Inc

Neuman, S.B., & Wright, T.S. (2013). All About Words: Increasing vocabulary in the common classroom, prek-2. New York: Teachers College Press.

New York State Department of Education. (2018). New York State Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks. Retrieved from http://www.p12.nysed.gov/sss/selbenchmarks.html

Pfister, M. (1999). The Rainbow Fish. New York, NY: North-South Books.

Yolen, J. (2006). How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?New York, NY: Blue Sky Press.