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My Family — Unit Teacher's Guide

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A four-page planning guide that maps out all nine companion My Family resources into a suggested 6-day unit plan, with planning notes, teaching tips, a dedicated sensitivity and inclusion section, and differentiation strategies.

Overview

This guide ties the entire My Family collection together. It summarizes what each of the nine companion resources contains and how they're formatted, explains the planning decisions behind which resource types were built, lays out a suggested six-day sequence for using them in order, and offers practical teaching tips. Because this topic touches every student's personal life differently, the guide includes a dedicated Sensitivity & Inclusion Guidance section — read before Resources 4, 6, and 8 — with specific, practical notes on keeping family talk inclusive, optional, and ungraded.

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Subject
ESL
Topic
My Family — Unit Teacher's Guide
Category
Assessments
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Published
30 Aug 2026
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Grade 1 30 Minutes Teacher's Guide

How to Use This Resource

  • Read through the "What's in This Collection" table to see every resource in the unit at a glance.
  • Read the Planning Notes to understand why certain commonly-suggested resource types were intentionally left out.
  • Read the Sensitivity & Inclusion Guidance section in full before teaching Resources 4, 6, or 8.
  • Use the suggested 6-Day Unit Plan as a starting sequence, adjusting pacing to fit your own class schedule.

Differentiation

Differentiation strategies (Support and Extension) for the unit as a whole are detailed within this guide, complementing the resource-specific differentiation notes found in each individual resource-info.md file.

Teacher Tips

Read the Sensitivity & Inclusion Guidance section even if you feel confident about this topic already — it names specific moments (like avoiding "who has the biggest family?" comparisons) that are easy to miss in the moment of teaching.

What's Included

  • 1 DOCX file (editable) and matching PDF (4 pages)

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