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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Bud, Not Buddy

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Use Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Set during The Great Depression, Bud, Not Buddy, tells the story of a 10-year-old boy on a mission to meet his father. Students will quickly become engaged with this award-winning novel and will benefit from studying how Christopher Paul Curtis used a variety of text structures to tell Bud's story.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for text structure, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to Bud, Not Buddy Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.5.3SL.5.1cRL.5.4W.5.8RL.5.5W.5.9RL.5.6L.5.4aRL.5.7L.5.5RL.5.9L.5.6RL.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4RL.5.1SL.5.1aRL.5.2SL.5.1b
TEKS Alignment
  • 5.6B5.10E5.7D5.9D(ii)5.6C5.10F5.7E5.9D(iii)5.6D5.10G5.7F5.9E(i)5.6E5.13A5.7G5.9E(ii)5.6F5.13C5.8A5.9E(iii)5.6G5.13E5.8B5.9F5.6H5.13H5.8C5.1C5.10A5.6I5.8D5.1A5.10B5.7A5.9A5.1D5.10C5.7B5.9B5.6A5.10D5.7C5.9D(i)
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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

The Bud, Not Buddy Book Club explores text structure. This first meeting discusses beginning with characters, setting, and plot as a foundation for understanding the structure of this narrative.
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Meeting 2

Students will use Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis to examine how the characters, setting , and plot add to the events of the story. To help organize their thinking, students will create a graphic organizer for their Reader's Notebook.
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Meeting 3

This Bud, Not Buddy Book Club meeting looks at author Christopher Paul Curtis' use of description to help the reader see, hear, smell, taste, or feel what is happening in the text. Students will notice how the inclusion of detailed descriptions enables the reader to better understand the story.
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Meeting 4

In Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, students will gain experience with the compare and contrast text structure. The use of a Venn diagram creates a visual representation of what students are reading.
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Meeting 5

Cause and effect is an important text structure for showing the relationship between events in Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Lewis. Student discussion during this meeting focuses on examining the causes and effects of important story events.
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Meeting 6

Comprehension improves when readers are able to understand how the story unfolds. Using Bud, Not Buddy, students will detail the sequence of events using words like first, next, after, then, and last.
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Meeting 7

Using a Rising Action graphic organizer, students will plot the main events of Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis. This activity will reinforce the rise and fall in action that is part of a narrative's text structure.
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Vocabulary Connections with Bud, Not Buddy

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Vocabulary Connections with Bud, Not Buddy

This set of vocabulary development resources for Bud, Not Buddy 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 understanding text structure.
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Running Record with Bud, Not Buddy

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Running Record with Bud, Not Buddy

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Bud, Not Buddy. 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

Not Buddy Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources
Title: Bud, Not Buddy
Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Genre: Historical Fiction
Themes: Social Awareness, Friendship, Award Winners, Perseverance, Decision Making, Black History Month, Relationship Skills, Self Awareness, Family, Self Management
ISBN: 9781101934265
Publisher's Summary:
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things. 2. He’s the author of Bud Caldwell’s Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud’s got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop him—not hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself.
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