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.
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.
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.
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.
