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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

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Use Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Marfe Ferguson Delano to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Teach students how to make inferences using the features of nonfiction text with Marfe Ferguson Delano's Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison. This nonfiction text is filled with engaging photographs of Edison and his work, captions, quotations, a timeline, and an index to aid readers in deeply understanding this gifted inventor.
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Instructional Overview

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The instructional overview includes instructional background for making inferences, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison Book Club.
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  • W.4.9L.4.6L.4.5cL.4.4aW.4.8RF.4.4RF.4.3RI.4.10RI.4.8RI.4.7RI.4.5RI.4.4RI.4.3RI.4.2RI.4.1
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Management Resources

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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

This first Book Club meeting introduces students to making inferences while reading a nonfiction text. Using Marfe Ferguson Delano's photobiography of Thomas Edison, readers will practice inferring character traits of Thomas Edison using their background knowledge, the text, and the various features of nonfiction text.
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Meeting 2

Author Marfu00e9 Ferguson Delano relies on photographs and captions to help tell the story of Thomas Edison's life in Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison. This meeting contains an interactive activity that reviews the features of nonfiction text and the role that they play in helping the reader make logical inferences.
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Meeting 3

This final Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison Book Club meeting engages students in a discussion how to use the features of nonfiction text to make inferences in their future reading and provides an opportunity for students to demonstrate how their inferences helped them get to know Thomas Edison as a person.
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Vocabulary Connections with Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

This set of vocabulary development resources for Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison 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.

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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with making inferences.
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Comprehension Assessment with Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

This 9 question Common Core aligned assessment can be used to determine students' overall comprehension of Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison and their mastery of the Common Core State Standards.
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Running Record with Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison. 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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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: Inventing the Future: A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
Author: Marfe Ferguson Delano
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography
Themes: Growth Mindset, Family, STEAM / STEM, Perseverance, History
ISBN: 9781426322334
Publisher's Summary:
Young readers learn why Edison believed that "genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration." An inspiring lesson in the rewards of dogged perseverance, Inventing the Future also illustrates how Edison's greatest legacy is the research laboratory, where constant experimentation remains the necessary prelude to discovery.
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