Native American Homes
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What's Inside
Read this one together and pause to look closely at each home. Ask your child to name what they notice and use clues to figure out who built it.
Native American Homes helps children practice identifying different homes and thinking about how people made them. It also connects to Native Americans, problem solving, and social studies ideas.
Use the pictures and the title as you read, and invite your child to explain how they know their answer before turning the page.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Native American Homes into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Native American history
- Homes and shelters
- Identifying clues
- Problem solving
- Social studies concepts
Discussion Questions
- 1 The book asks us to identify Native American homes and who built them. What clues would help you match a home to the people who made it?
- 2 Why do you think different Native American homes were built in different ways?
- 3 The title talks about homes. What do you think we should notice about a home besides what it looks like?
- 4 If you were looking at pictures of different homes, how could you use problem solving to figure out which one is which?
- 5 What does this book help you learn about Native Americans and their homes?
- 6 After reading, how would you explain to someone else that homes can tell us about how people live?
Words to Learn
- Native Americans
- The first people who lived in North America and their descendants.
- home
- A place where people live and feel safe.
- build
- To make something by putting parts together.
- identify
- To figure out what something is.
- clue
- A small piece of information that helps you answer a question.
- problem solving
- Thinking carefully to find an answer.
- social studies
- A subject that teaches about people, places, and how they live.
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