Gordon's Discovery | Auntie Karen's Place - Episode 6

Gordon is one of Auntie Karen's Jamaican Yams Character. When Gordon, a purple overweight Jamaican Yam discovers he is pre-diabetic, he gets some comforting advice from his friend Shelby. The purpose of the Auntie Karen’s Place: Gordon’s Discovery is to assist young children and providers with tools to recognize signs and symptoms of diabetes, improve eating habits and general nutrition principles and increase physical activity among this age group. The entire project includes three 10 minute segments addressing the above principles.

Standards

• RI Reading–Informational Text
  • RI.LCS Language, Craft, and Structure
    • RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
  • RI.MC Meaning and Context
    • RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.
• Grade 1: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds including consonant blends in spoken words.
  • Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
    • RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
• Grade 2: Use and apply knowledge of how inflectional endings change words.
  • Grade 2: Make predictions before and during reading; confirm or modify thinking.
    • RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
    • RI.MC.6 Summarize key details and ideas to support analysis of central ideas.