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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Capitalization: Family Relationships (Used as Proper Names)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that family relationships such as Mom, Dad, Uncle, and Aunt are capitalized if they are used as names, but are not capitalized if used as common nouns such as my mom, his dad, etc. Examples are provided.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: My Family

For Students Pre-K - K
Each page of this book presents different members of a family. Includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Make Believe Box

For Students K - 1st
In this story, a family has fun gathering things for a make-believe box. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
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TES Global

Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Family

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a collection of links to help students see how Shakespeare used the theme of family relationships that are still relevant today.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What Should I Do if My Family Fights

For Students 9th - 10th
When the people in your family are fighting, it's hard to figure out what to do. You may be feeling sad, ashamed, or even angry when it happens. Whatever your feelings are, what you probably want most is for the fighting to stop....
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 2 3

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Check out these cross-curricular activities for second and third grade teachers focused on the family. This site provides lessons, activities, ideas, reproducibles and more.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Family Relationships

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Families come in all shapes and sizes. Celebrate differences with students.
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Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: We Are Family, Grades 4 8

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How can you introduce a unit on families with upper elementary and middle school students? This site provides lessons, activities, themes and more for accomplishing this task.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Big Sister

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A story about what it is like to have a big sister. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: A Present for My Auntie

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A story about a boy trying to decide what to do to show his affection for his aunt. Includes audio narration in English and Turkish.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Chef's Surprise!

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this story, a young girl goes grocery shopping with her father, then they prepare a meal together for her mother. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Golf Buddies

For Students 1st
A story about a young boy going golfing with his father. Includes audio readaloud feature in English, Spanish, and Turkish.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: The Bowling Alley

For Students K - 1st
In this story, two young girls go bowling with their uncle. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish, with text in English.
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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Family: Grandpa's Secret Potion

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this story, a boy and his grandpa prepare a 'potion' to make giant bubbles. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Point of View: Up Heartbreak Hill: Factors in a Successful College Experience Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson from POV, students will watch four video clips that provide glimpses into the lives of two high school seniors who live in New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. They will then analyze a current issue that Native Americans...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Welcoming a New Baby Into Your Family

For Students 3rd - 5th
Having a new brother or sister can create many opportunities and challenges for you. You can show how responsible you can be by helping as much as you can. You will have to deal with all the attention that the baby receives from your...
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PBS

Pbs: The Leakey Family

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS profile of the Leakeys--Louis, Mary, Richard, and Maeve--discusses their finds at Olduvai Gorge and family relationships. Related links.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Centers for Disease Control: My Family Health Portrait

For Students 9th - 10th
Students create a personalized family health history report. The resource consists of a sample report, a family tree, and a chart of your family health history.
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Math Cats

Math Cat: Fact Family Card

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you need to know about fact families can be found here. Discover what fact families are and learn different strategies for using them. Links included to print your own fact family cards, create a fact family house, and play a...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Living With Grandparents

For Students 3rd - 5th
Parents "of the grandest sort" are sometimes people we only get to see on holidays. Maybe you spend each afternoon after school with your grandparent. Kids have all kinds of different relationships with their grandparents. Sometimes kids...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Living With a Single Parent

For Students 3rd - 5th
Can you describe the "typical American family?" What would that family look like to you? Would it resemble your family? Today, there are so many different kinds of families that it is difficult to describe a "typical" family. Families...
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University of Florida

Baldwin Library: The Whisperer by Mrs. S. C. Hall

For Students 2nd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book The Whisperer by Mrs. S. C. Hall (1888). It is concerned with family and schoolroom relationships and behaviors. It is part of the Chambers's Library for Young...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (7) reading passages (grades 8-10) to pair with the drama "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry. When a struggling African-American family receives a large insurance check, a conflict erupts on how to spend the money....
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Friendship & Family: What Is a Friend?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question, "What is a friend?" Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration required for...

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