Another great lesson coming your way from Katelyn Propper is about Target Groups & Children’s Books. Katelyn uses this in her Understanding Diversity class. The lesson explores what target groups are, characteristics of them and who they are made up of before assigning a project using children’s books. Read on to learn more.

Set

• Students are introduced to the lesson via the Target Group slide presentation. In the presentation, students learn what target groups are, their characteristics and groups of people that make them up.
• Once students are familiar with all of the target group information, the project is assigned.

Materials

• iPads or Laptops
• Projector & Screen
• Variety of Children’s Books
• Manilla folders
• Construction paper
• Markers
• Document Camera (optional/affiliate link)

Activities

• Introduce the project titled, Judge a Book by Its Cover Book Report to the students by going over the guide sheet and outline. Katelyn credits her colleague, Abby Brosseau, for creating the graphic organizer. Note: If you didn’t want to use construction paper for the lapbook, you could print the graphic organizer in different colors and students could glue them onto the manilla folders.
• Katelyn has a variety of books on display for this project that she gets from the local public library for use with this project. Each children’s book covers a specific target group. Below is a book list and the target group it covers. The Children’s Books document is a screen shot of the book covers, titles, and authors.
• Students present the book along with information about the target group. That way they are exploring the different groups and teaching the various groups to the class.
• If students read their book to the class,  Katelyn does give them extra credit. She is fortunate enough to have a document camera so they can show the books that way.

Attachments

• Target Groups Slide Presentation
• Target Groups Book Report Project
• Target Groups Project Outline
• Book Lists & Groups
• Children’s Books