A family is YOU and the people who live with you, love you, and take care of you. There are all kinds of families, but your own is the one you know best.
Families come in all sizes-big families, middle-sized families, little families. The people in a family are all ages too. Young families with young children, middle-aged families with teenaged children, and old families with grown-up children and grandchildren.
Families come with all kinds of people…different sizes, different ages. Some people in families look like each other… some look very different from each other. There are all kinds of families.
People who live together, love together, fight together, and make up together, work and play with each other, laugh, cry, and live under one roof…together…they are a family.
A family is people who belong together, like husbands and wives and their children, like mothers and children…like fathers and children, like grandparents and grandchildren who live together.
People in a family fit just right together, like all the pieces in a puzzle.
What’s special about a family? It’s the feelings they have about each other from living together, sharing good times and bad times…growing together.
Comprehension Questions
1. What is a family?
A. You and the people who live with you
B. The people in your neighborhood
C. You and your classmates
A. like pieces of a puzzle
B. like oil and water
C. like rain and sunshine
Your Thoughts
Vocabulary
4. List any vocabulary words below.