My Travelin’ Eye
- General Information:
- Title- “My Travelin’ Eye”
- Author- Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
- Publication Date- April 1, 2008
- Publisher- Henry Holt and Co.
- This book is about a little girl and her struggles with having a lazy eye. Between ophthalmologist visits and struggles seeing out of her lazy eye with her new eye patch covering her good eye, young Jenny Sue must navigate through life and learn how to manage her newest adventure with her eye health. This book could be tied into an ELA session. Students can read through the book and then have a follow up discussion about eye health using details that they have gathered through their reading.
- Excerpts (taken from e-book):
- Core Integration:
- Follow-up assignment: This book is about learning about your own eye health, and how taking care of yourself helps you. In a classroom of 3rd-5thgraders a good follow up assignment to this book would be opening up a discussion to the classroom. As a teacher you could ask questions to gauge whether or not students have any concept of what healthy vision looks like. Some examples of questions could be:
- Who should you talk to if you’re having problems with your eyes?
- What does it look like to have good vision?
- What kind of things can help you see better?
- What is the special kind of doctor for your eyes called?
- Follow-up assignment: This book is about learning about your own eye health, and how taking care of yourself helps you. In a classroom of 3rd-5thgraders a good follow up assignment to this book would be opening up a discussion to the classroom. As a teacher you could ask questions to gauge whether or not students have any concept of what healthy vision looks like. Some examples of questions could be:
Students will also be ale to freely ask questions or talk about their own experiences with their vision journey. This should make the talk about vision more accessible and less scary to students. They should feel free to ask questions to their parents/guardians as well as their teachers when they are unsure about their own personal eye health.
- Standards:
| Standard 1 | Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health. |
1.5.1 Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
1.5.5 Describe when it is important to seek health care.
General Curriculum ELA:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events