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Teaser: Do only humans have families? Who else in this world has a family and what are they like? Watch the video and see who all is a family in this world.
Teaching idea: One teaching idea that I could do to center it around this video would be, I would have the students get a piece of paper and draw a family other than a human family. It is important for our students to know that people are not the only ones who have families. There are dog families, wild animal families, fish families, and many more. Next i would have the students share their drawing and see who all they came up with that are families.

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Teaser: Do you think every family is the same? The answer is no! Every family is unique in their own way and this video describes how families can be unique and special for who they are.
Teaching Idea: One simple teaching idea based off of this would be to talk about how different all families are. After that we could do a project where each student shares a tradition that their family has.  All families have little traditions that are special to them so by the students sharing that, they can share something that is special and important to them.

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Teaser: Everyone has a picture that comes to mind when they hear the word family but what really is a family and what makes up a family?
Teaching idea: This video is good for the basics and the overview of a family. This video can help students hear about families that are different than their own. One teaching idea would be, after we are done watching the video, i can have the students make a list together as a class about all the different family structures they saw in the video. This will help them remember that there is more than just one traditional structure.

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Teaser: This video does a great job of explaining the family that many people know of from a TV show, Modern Family. This family is unique and special in their own way and is not your typical traditional family that you see but it doesn't make them any less.
Teaching Idea: One teaching idea that I have would be geared more for older students.  The students could go home and film their family and do a family video on who each person in their family is and how they play a role in the family.

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NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED. Stephanie Gratsounas Ella Ranniko Christine Casimiro

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Author: Doris Stickney
Published: 01-28-2004
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: NA
Text Level: H, Lexile: AD390L
Teaser: Death can be a difficult topic for anyone especially when trying to explain it to younger children. This book does a wonderful job of putting the death of a loved one in very loving terms and explaining that it happens to more than just you (the person going through it) and although times are tough, your loved one will always love you and be with you.
Teaching Idea: Although this is a tough subject for many, instead of having the students relate to this personally we could just talk about how some people lose loved ones so that may be a reason that they don't have a mom or a dad in their life and mainly turn this into a class discussion rather than a project. This is something that we want our students to understand.

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Author: Roma Downey
Published: 09-28-2001
Approximate Level: K-3rd
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Justine Gasquet
Text Level: Lexile AD1080L Guided Reading: K
Teaser: Who do you say goodnight to before bed? Is it mom, dad, grandparents, siblings, aunt, uncle, or a friend? everyone has a different person that they look up to and are raised by and thats what makes us all unique.  Some children just live with one person and other children live with lots of other people. this book explains how even a small little family can be so loving.
Teaching Idea: One teaching idea would be to have a poster in the front of the class and have different columns on the poster a column one, two, three, four, five, six, and more than six.  Each student will have a picture of themselves and will place it under the column for the amount of people that live in their house.  So if i lived with a mom, dad, and one sister i would put my picture under the column 4.  this is a way for students to share their home life and to see who has things in common.

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Author: Robert Skutch
Published: 02-28-1997
Approximate Level: Pre K-2nd
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Laura Nienhaus
Text Level: K, Lexile: 370L
Teaser: Everyone has a different definition of family.  Some people describe family as the people they live with.  Others describe their friends as family because of how close they are to their friends.  this book talks about a modern family and how everyone is different and has their own definition.  it is important to be accepting to everyones unique definition because no single definition is correct, they all are.
Teaching Idea: One teaching idea would be to have my students write down their definition of family and then get into partners and share their definition of a family with each other. They would get to explain why they chose that to be their definition and who all falls under the category as family.

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Author: Karen Katz
Published: 07-28-2001
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Karen Katz
Text Level: Not Found
Teaser: Have you ever traveled out of the country? Well this story is about a child who gets adopted by a family that lives in another country.  The child gets a warm and loving welcome home when she is brought into her new country with her family.
Teaching Idea:  Some of our students may be from other countries or even just another state than they live in currently.  We could have the students do a project that gets them to share where they were born so we as a class can get to know that about them and they can learn things about themselves. Some students may find things in common with others and realize that they have more in common than they thought with another student.

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Author: Claire Masurel
Published: July 14 2003
Illustrator: Kady Mac Donald Denton
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Text Level: H, Lexile: AD390L
Teaser: Everyone comes from a different background.  Some people live with both of their parents, some live with grandparents.  Well in this story we hear about another family make up where a child gets to live with his mom some days and his dad another day.  This story brings up the topic of divorce and does a great job about bringing out the positives in getting to have a unique home with your mom and a unique home with your dad.
Teaching Idea: Divorce can be a sensitive topic to some students so instead of directly talking about divorce we can talk about who lives in our home and then if a student feels comfortable they can share if their parents are divorced or if they live only with one or another parent. Something I could have the students
do is draw a house and then draw a picture of the people that live in that house.  this will then allow the students to talk about who they live under the same roof with.

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Author: Leslea Newman

Illustrator: Carol Thompson

Publication date: 2009

Genre: Fiction

Approximate level: K-2

Text level: Not Found

Teaser: Everyone comes from a different family makeup.  Some people have a mom they live with, some only a dad, some live with a foster family, others an adopted family.  The child in the book comes from a family with having two dads and the child is proud because all that matters is that they love him even though his lifestyle is different from others.

Teaching idea: Talking about family can either be an easy topic for some people or can be a very sensitive and difficult topic for others.  A teaching idea could be to do a family reflection. By doing a family reflection, it allows for the student to write in their own words who they consider to be family whether that is their mom or dad or aunt and uncle, or grandma and grandpa.  Everyone has a different view on family so we should let the students express their own view.

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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

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Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born

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Author: Jamie Lee Curtis

Illustrator: Laura Cornell

Publication date: 1996

Genre: Fiction

Approximate level: K-2

Text level: Lexile AD1080L Guided Reading: K

Teaser: Everyone came into this world in their own unique way.  The little girl telling the story came into this world and was adopted at birth.  She loves to hear the story about how she got to where she is today and how even though her parents are not her biological parents, they love her unconditionally and that is all that matters.

Teaching idea:  One idea for teaching could be to read a book like this talk about where our students came from and discuss who they live with or who grew up in their house.  Many students don’t realize that everyone comes from a unique background and its common to not have that traditional mom dad brother sister family.  Many students live with an aunt or uncle or grandma or grandpa and they shouldn’t be embarrassed to share that.
Sociocultural Idea: Going through the book and  having the students decide on any unfamiliar words and then discussing with a partner as well as with the class could be a great way for students to get to know more words and vocabulary terms.

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Teaser: Not everyone knows all the different shapes and forms that families come in. Take a look at this video and see how all families are so special and unique to one another.
Teaching Idea: This video gave me a cool idea where I could have my future class remake a video like this but with a picture of their own families. I could have each student turn in a picture of their family or who they consider to be family and I could put together a video and the class could watch it to see how some families are similar to others and others are different or unique.

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Author: Todd Parr
Published: 2003
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Todd Parr
Text level: H, Lexile: AD390L
Teaser: We all have in our minds that every family is different. What we need to realize is, although we are all different, we all have things that mean a lot to us such as each other and that is what can make us similar.
Teaching Idea: One teaching idea would be to have our students complete a family tree.  this can help us better know our students as well as they are able to connect with one another and also show how their family is unique.
Sociocultural Idea: One idea I liked was the word wall. This could help students learn different words associated with family such as what a step parent is or a niece or nephew is.

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Author: Karen Katz
Published: 1999
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Karen Katz
Text Level: K, Lexile: 370L
Teaser: Do you think it is realistic that one day everyone in the world will have the exact same skin tone? Of course not! Everyone is made up of different genes that cause their skin to be different colors and shades. Lena and her mom take a stroll in the town to see all different shades and Lena realizes, everyone is not as similar as she once thought.
Teaching Idea: A teaching idea for the students would be to have them draw or paint a self portrait.  This allows for the student to draw what they see themselves as and what skin tone they think they are by what color they choose to use.

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Author: Leslea Newman
Illustrated By: Carol Thompson
Published: 2009
Approximate Level: K-2
Genre: Fiction
Illustrator: Carol Thompson
Text Level: Not found
Teaser: Most of us are only familiar with one type of family structure and that is whatever we came from when growing up. Can you imagine if you came from a different family structure than you do today? Everyone's family make up is different and that is what makes us all unique. The story digs into life with two moms and how a family is really just a group of people that love each other unconditionally no matter the gender or guardian figure.
Teaching Idea: Doing projects on family structures can be very important because it is great for students to know that not everyone comes from the typical traditional family structure. Most students families are not considered "traditional" so they need to be aware that it isn't
just them, there are many many others that come from other structures.