Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Let’s Go Rock Collecting

Use Let’s Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Let's Go Rock Collecting is an engaging book about geology. Full of bright illustrations and fun facts about rocks, students will enjoy learning how rocks are formed, how rocks can be used, and how igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks differ from one another - all while strengthening their use of key comprehension strategies.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Let’s Go Rock Collecting in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Asking Questions with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

Capture your students' curiosity about rocks to help them deepen comprehension while reading Let's Go Rock Collecting. By asking questions throughout the text, students will learn how to set a purpose for reading and how to adjust their purpose as they learn new information.
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Determining Importance with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Determining Importance with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

Let's Go Rock Collecting is smart choice to use with readers who are interested in learning about rocks. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to show readers how to find the important information about igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks inside of a text.
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Understanding Text Structure with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Understanding Text Structure with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

Roma Gans does a really nice job of using text structures to tell about rocks. Help students to name and notice the ways in which the author uses sequencing, description, cause and effect, and compare and contrast in this informational text.
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Antonyms with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Antonyms with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Let's Go Rock Collecting by Roma Gans as a springboard for instruction focused on antonyms.

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

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Vocabulary Connections with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Vocabulary Connections with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

This set of vocabulary development resources for Let's Go Rock Collecting 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.

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Running Record with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Running Record with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Let's Go Rock Collecting. 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.

Vocabulary Assessment with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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Vocabulary Assessment with Let’s Go Rock Collecting

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.

Asking Questions with Let’s Go Rock Collecting (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with Let’s Go Rock Collecting (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Let’s Go Rock Collecting (Spanish)

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Vocabulary Assessment with Let’s Go Rock Collecting (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Let’s Go Rock Collecting
Author: Roma Gans
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: Rocks and Minerals
ISBN: 9780063091399
Publisher's Summary:
Readers follow two enthusiastic rock hounds around the globe as they add to their collection. Along the way they will learn how sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks are formed. From the Egyptian pyramids to Roman roads, from the diamond ring on a finger to the pebbles under your feet, rocks are everywhere!
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