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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Finding Winnie

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Use Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Finding Winnie tells the true story of a remarkable bear named Winnipeg and the people who loved her. Students will enjoy tracking Winnie's adventures from the fields of Canada to an Army base in England, and finally to the London Zoo where Winnie meets a boy named Christopher Robin. This true story of the black bear who inspired AA Milne to create Winnie-the-Pooh will captivate readers, making it the perfect springboard for comprehension strategy mini lessons.  
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Asking Questions with Finding Winnie

Readers will find it easy to ask questions while reading about Winnie and her adventures. Use this mini lesson and set of student resources to help students ask questions that set a purpose for reading, to ask questions about details inside of the illustrations, and to wonder about new words.

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RI.2.1,RI.2.7,RI.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.9D(iii),2.9D(ii),2.9D(i),2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Connections with Finding Winnie

Students will enjoy connecting what they know about people and world events to this true story about the world's most famous bear. Help students identify the ways we connect books to our own experiences, other text, and to the world with this making connections mini lesson.
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RI.2.2,RI.2.3,RI.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
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2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9D(iii),2.9D(ii),2.9D(i),2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Inferences with Finding Winnie

Helping readers identify the ways we can make inferences to deepen comprehension an important part of reading instruction. Use this making inference resource set to teach students how to use illustrations, author's word choice, and prior knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of this charming story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.2.3,RI.2.4,RI.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9D(iii),2.9D(ii),2.9D(i),2.8C,2.8B,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6F,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Synthesizing with Finding Winnie

Lindsay Mattick does a nice job of weaving facts about Winnie throughout the text. Help students become more metacognitive by teaching them how to synthesize these facts in order to form a deeper understanding of the famous black bear.
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RI.2.1,RI.2.2,RI.2.3,RI.2.4,RI.2.5,RI.2.6,RI.2.7,RI.2.8,RI.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9D(iii),2.9D(ii),2.9D(i),2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with Finding Winnie

Finding Winnie is full of engaging description. Use this visualizing lesson plan and set of student resources to teach readers how to use the words in a text to create mental images while reading. This mini lesson specifically focuses on visualizing action, description, and emotion.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RI.2.3,RI.2.7,RI.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.9D(iii),2.9D(ii),2.9D(i),2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Consonants with Finding Winnie

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Finding Winnie by Lindsay Mattick as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how double consonants are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Finding Winnie

This set of vocabulary development resources for Finding WinnieX 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 pictures, 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.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Finding Winnie

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Finding Winnie.
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Running Record with Finding Winnie

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Finding Winnie. 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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Cause and Effect Matching with Finding Winnie

Read Finding Winnie then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Finding Winnie. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Finding Winnie

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Finding Winnie includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
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Retelling and Summarizing with Finding Winnie

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Asking Questions with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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Retelling and Summarizing with Finding Winnie (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Finding Winnie
Author: Lindsay Mattick
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography
Themes: Adventure, Award Winners, History
ISBN: 9780316388023
Publisher's Summary:
In 1914, Harry Colebourn, a veterinarian on his way to tend horses in World War I, followed his heart and rescued a baby bear. He named her Winnie, after his hometown of Winnipeg, and he took the bear to war. Harry Colebourn's real-life great-granddaughter tells the true story of a remarkable friendship and an even more remarkable journey--from the fields of Canada to a convoy across the ocean to an army base in England... And finally to the London Zoo, where Winnie made another new friend: a real boy named Christopher Robin. Before Winnie-the-Pooh, there was a real bear named Winnie. And she was a girl!
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