Picture book lesson plans and activities for busy teachers
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the Christmas / winter mentor text picture book Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry. A great holiday read for poetry, wants and needs, and perspective! 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)… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the Christmas / winter mentor text picture book How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky. A really fun holiday book with a perfect social-emotional learning (SEL) connection about perseverance, not giving up and being yourself. 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 fiction mentor text picture book My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano and Jillian Tamaki. Great for friendships, social emotional learning (SEL) and relationships! 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… Read More
This is a fun writing activity that my kids love to do every year to go along with our Dr. Seuss book study. Students can choose from a variety of templates to write their opinions about the various Dr. Seuss books that you have read. The writing templates have 4 differentiated versions for various reading/writing levels of students. This resource… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the Christmas / winter mentor text picture book Tough Cookie a Christmas Story by Edward Hemingway. A great take on the folktale/fairytale The Gingerbread Man. Lessons and activities focus on: summarizing close reading for describing character feelings comparing and contrasting author’s message / lesson The lesson plans include: teacher script… Read More
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the mentor text picture book Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Ebony Glenn. Great for learning about diverse Muslim families, religious studies of Islam, and multicultural children. 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) using text evidence… Read More