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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Brown Girl Dreaming

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Use Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Expertly written, brown girl dreaming is the beautiful autobiography of Jacqueline Woodson. Shared in the text structure of free verse poetry, readers will begin to understand what it was like to be an African American growing up in the 1960's and 1970's. This poetic account provides the perfect vehicle for mini-lessons focused on character analysis.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for character analysis, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to brown girl dreaming Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.5.6RL.5.9L.5.5L.5.4aW.5.9W.5.8SL.5.1cSL.5.1bSL.5.1aRF.5.4RF.5.3RL.5.10RL.5.7RL.5.6RL.5.5RL.5.4RL.5.3RL.5.2RL.5.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 5.6H5.8B5.8A5.7G5.7F5.7E5.7D5.7C5.7B5.7A5.6I5.8C5.6G5.6F5.6E5.6D5.6C5.6B5.6A5.1D5.1A5.1C5.10A5.13H5.13E5.13C5.13A5.10G5.10F5.10E5.10D5.10C5.10B5.9F5.9E(iii)5.9E(ii)5.9E(i)5.9D(iii)5.9D(ii)5.9D(i)5.9B5.9A5.8D
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Management Resources

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Management Resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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Meeting 1

As readers become more advanced, their use of comprehension strategies grows to be more sophisticated. Using brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson allows students to enhance their skills through the lens of character analysis.
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Meeting 2

When reading an autobiography like brown girl dreaming, the emotions that the main character shares belong to the author. Identifying the character's feelings, whether positive or negative, is an important part of character analysis.
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Meeting 3

In brown girl dreaming, author Jacqueline Woodson uses descriptive language to allow the reader to visualize her emotions. This meeting focuses on creating a graphic organizer for students to use while reading to keep track of the emotions of the main character.
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Meeting 4

When reading a longer text like, brown girl dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, readers need to distinguish between details that are more or less important. Student discussion will lead them to discover that, many times, the more important details are at times of a change in the character's feelings.
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Meeting 5

Comparing and contrasting characters is a good way for the reader to clarify the character's feelings. Using the characters in brown girl dreaming, students can practice this skill.
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Meeting 6

In brown girl dreaming, like many texts, the reader is not always given all of the information about an event, feeling, etc. Students will practice using their background knowledge and information from the text to synthesize conclusions about what is happening.
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Meeting 7

Author Jacqueline Woodson includes many examples of cause and effect related to her feelings in brown girl dreaming. Discussing why she feels the way she does will help students to comprehend the text better.
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Meeting 8

In an autobiography like brown girl dreaming, the author is reflecting on events of his/her life. When the reader pays careful attention to this reflection, he/she is able to identify the author's emotions surrounding each event and better understand the character.
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Meeting 9

This final brown girl dreaming Book Club focuses on the important role the time period plays when analyzing the main character. Understanding the historical climate will provide great insight to the main character's emotions.
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Vocabulary Connections with Brown Girl Dreaming

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Vocabulary Connections with Brown Girl Dreaming

This set of vocabulary development resources for brown girl dreaming highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.5.4aL.5.5L.5.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 5.7E5.7F5.3A5.3B
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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with character analysis.
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Running Record with Brown Girl Dreaming

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Running Record with Brown Girl Dreaming

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with brown girl dreaming. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Management Resources - Spanish

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Management Resources - Spanish

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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About the Book

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Title: Brown Girl Dreaming
Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Genre: Poetry, Autobiography
Themes: Social Awareness, Friendship, Self Management, Family, Women's History Month, Self Awareness, Relationship Skills, Black History Month, Decision Making, Award Winners
ISBN: 9780698195707
Publisher's Summary:
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child’s soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson’s eloquent poetry also reflects the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, despite the fact that she struggled with reading as a child. Her love of stories inspired her and stayed with her, creating the first sparks of the gifted writer she was to become.
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