Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text picture book Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees. Also great for bilingual classrooms as the book is also available under the title Las jirafas no pueden bailar. Activities in English and Spanish! Great for growth mindset and social emotional learning (SEL)! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction poem mentor text book The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson. Great for Black History Month and poetry studies! 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) analyzing key details comparing and contrasting identifying main… Read More