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 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
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text book Mexique A Refugee Story from the Spanish Civil War by Maria Jose Ferrada and Ana Penyas. A great multicultural book for Latin History, refugee studies, Hispanic Heritage Month, and poetry. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline,… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the autobiography fiction mentor text picture book Storm Run The Story of the First Woman to Win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race by Libby Riddles and Shannon Cartwright. A great story for reading about sled dogs, the Iditarod Race in Alaska, determination, and Women’s History Month, and more. Google Slides presentation and… Read More
