Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
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
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book I Promise by Lebron James. Great for talking about back to school, social emotional learning (SEL), grit and goal setting. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: close reading for understanding the meaning of unknown words and phrases / vocabulary analyzing… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book 7 Ate 9 The Untold Story by Tara Lazar and Ross MacDonald. Great for talking about mystery / caper genre, jokes, homophones and words with more than one meaning. 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 I Am Farmer Growing an Environmental Movement in Cameroon by Miranda Paul, Baptiste Paul and Elizabeth Zunon. This is a great book for Earth Day, environmental studies, Africa, and farming. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text book That Book Woman by Heather Henson and David Small. This is a great book for back to school, library, love of reading and learning about the Pack Horse Librarians. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies:… Read More