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Use The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Climb in the station wagon and join the relatives for a fun-filled drive to their summer destination! The relatives are visiting family for the summer months. As students learn new comprehension strategies they will feel like part of the family, creating a connection to the story, taking away the ability to retell, infer a character's thoughts and feelings and ask questions about the text.
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Asking Questions with The Relatives Came

Cynthia Rylant's classic picture book gives students just the right amount of information, leaving them room to form their own questions about the relatives. This asking questions lesson plan and set of resources helps students to become more involved in the story as they learn to ask questions about the characters and events.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Connections with The Relatives Came

The Relatives Came is a story about the strong bond between loved ones, even if they don't see each other often. Students will quickly see similarities between the relatives in the book and their own relatives. Through using this picture book as a springboard for a making connections mini lesson, readers will learn how to use their personal memories, and what they know about the world to more deeply engage with the text.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G
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Making Inferences with The Relatives Came

Use this making inferences lesson plan and set of resources to guide your students make inferences about the ways characters feel, what the characters do, and what the characters may be thinking. Students' prior knowledge of the subject matter (family) will help them to make logical and thoughtful inferences about the relatives in this story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.8B,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6F,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with The Relatives Came

Cynthia Rylant's use of simple story elements in The Relatives Came makes this book an ideal anchor text for a mini lesson focused on retelling and summarizing. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to teach readers how to focus on the characters, setting, problem and solution in the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8D,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with The Relatives Came

Both Cynthia Rylant, the author of The Relatives Came, and Stephen Gammell, the illustrator, provide students with the opportunity to create detailed visualizations. Follow this done for you mini lesson to teach readers how to use Rylant's word descriptions and Gammell's heartwarming pictures to visualize while reading.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Suffixes with The Relatives Came

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding the suffix -ed to the present tense verbs to create verbs in the past tense is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with suffixes.
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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with The Relatives Came

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Relatives Came highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with The Relatives Came

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of The Relatives Came.
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Running Record with The Relatives Came

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Relatives Came. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Writing with The Relatives Came

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Asking Questions with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Making Connections with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Visualizing with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Writing with The Relatives Came (Spanish)

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Title: The Relatives Came
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Award Winners, Summer, Family, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780689717383
Publisher's Summary:
In a rainbow-colored station wagon that smelled like a real car, the relatives came. When they arrived, they hugged and hugged from the kitchen to the front room. All summer they tended the garden and ate up all the strawberries and melons. They plucked banjos and strummed guitars. When they finally had to leave, they were sad, but not for long. They all knew they would be together next summer.
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