Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the mentor text book Follow Those Zebras Solving a Migration Mystery by Sandra Markle. Great story for studying migration / migrating, mysteries, and the scientific method! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: close reading for understanding text features analyzing and summarizing key details with text evidence writing… Read More
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Pena and Christian Robinson. Great for SEL / social emotional learning, point of view, prejudice and diversity studies! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline,… Read More
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the wordless realistic fiction mentor text picture book One Little Bag An Amazing Journey by Henry Cole. Great for Earth Day, Arbor Day, conservation, recycling, renewable and nonrenewable resources, or environmental awareness! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic… Read More
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book Zonia’s Rainforest by Juana Martinez-Neal. Great for Earth Day, rainforest / jungle studies, and environmental activism! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So) Close reading for… Read More
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book We Found a Hat by Jon Klassen. Great for read aloud, examining humor / comedy, and examining the text to illustration connection! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But… Read More
Description A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction biography mentor text book Star Stuff Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos by Stephanie Roth Sisson. Great for outer space studies, biographies, STEM and scientist units. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: close reading for understanding text features analyzing and summarizing key details… Read More