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Guide Students with Handbook Activities

Words of Welcome Welcoming without Words

As your students learn the words of welcome This activity was designed to help children
from different countries, encourage them to focus on ways to be welcoming beyond
say these words out loud with feeling. Talk to words. Encourage students to be mindful that
them about how all languages have words – in welcoming others, our gestures, body
and all countries have ways – of welcoming language, demeanor, and attitude may be

others. This stems from a basic human even more important than the words we use.
desire to experience the joy that comes from This can be especially true when we
inviting others into our world. encounter a language barrier.

Help Them Dig Deeper – Research Project

Building on the “Out of Many, One” group activity, have students research and graph demographic
information about their classroom or neighborhood. They can focus on various aspects such as

continent of origin, country of origin, proportion of 1st, 2nd and 3rd+ generation immigrants; number of
siblings; etc.

Encourage More Reading – at Home, at School

All Kinds of People Inclusion of Others

Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The All Are Welcome Here
Story of Dr. Temple Grandin Big Umbrella
I Talk Like a River Buddy Bench
Nana Akua Goes to School I'll Walk with You
Oldest Student: How Mary Walker I'm New Here
Learned to Read Invisible Boy
Under My Hijab Nothing Rhymes with Orange
We're All Wonders Our Class is a Family
When Charley Met Emma Someone New
Why Am I Me? Strictly No Elephants

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