Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction wordless mentor text book Quest by Aaron Becker, the second in his series. A great story for character development and developing vocabulary since there are no words. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies) Examining patterns Describing character feelings / attributes /… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the wordless mentor text book Return by Aaron Becker, the third in his series. Great for vocabulary development! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details Close reading for describing character traits character feelings / emotions author’s message / lesson The lesson plans include: teacher script with… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell. This story is also available in Spanish titled Los tres pequenos jabalies. Activities are in English and Spanish! Great as part of a unit on fractured fairy tales! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: summarizing (4… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel. This book is also available in Spanish titled Todos vieron un gato. Activities are in English and Spanish! A great springboard for social emotional learning (SEL), consequences of our actions and seeing things from another’s perspective! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book City Green by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan. A great springboard for Earth Day, community studies, and gardening! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs. Lessons and activities focus on: summarizing (4 strategies: Timeline, Narrative Retell, Somebody Wanted But Then So, and Story Map) analyzing character feelings analyzing key details using text evidence close… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Sonia Sotomayor A Judge Grows In The Bronx by Jonah Winter and Edel Rodriguez. This book can also be found in Spanish under the title Sonia Sotomayor La juez que crecio en el Bronx. Activities are in English and Spanish! This is a great book for… Read More