Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.

Have the children list the characteristics of the memory things in the text.

Objective: To elicit from the children the details of the story, and to use the text to help the children understand different kinds of “memory things.”

Activity: Have the children list the characteristics of the memory things in the text. Children may use the book to do this.
Next have the children interview a grandparent or a senior friend about one of their happy memories and then draw a picture of the person and their memory.

Assessment: Level of understanding on the part of the children of the meaning of memory symbols. The visual should depict the incident being described