Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, biographies, music studies or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book Pies From Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito and Laura Freeman. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, biographies, or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs…. Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the poetry mentor text book Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth. This is a great book for teaching about poetry and National Poetry Month in April! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: analyzing and describing poem types such as haikus, couplets… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book Rosa by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, biographies, or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book R-E-S-P-E-C-T Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul by Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, biographies, music studies or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book Pies From Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Dee Romito and Laura Freeman. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, biographies, or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs…. Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the poetry mentor text book Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets by Kwame Alexander, Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth. This is a great book for teaching about poetry and National Poetry Month in April! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: analyzing and describing poem types such as haikus, couplets… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book Rosa by Nikki Giovanni and Bryan Collier. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, biographies, or for Women’s History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text picture book Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford. This is a great book for teaching about author’s word choice with poetry. Great for Black History Month, biography studies, and Civil War / Underground Railroad studies! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus… Read More
Looking for the best Valentine’s Day books for kids? Valentines Day is a holiday with very few books, but many books are still great for it! Some books may be specifically about Valentine’s Day, others may be more about friendship. Let’s face it, February is the best month to focus on friendship. We all know how February can be. In… Read More
