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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Rocks and Minerals

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Use Rocks and Minerals by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Turn your students into budding geologists with this approachable nonfiction text. Interesting facts about the rocks and minerals that form our world are presented with full-color photographs making this a National Geographic reader the perfect anchor text for building comprehension skills while utilizing the features of nonfiction text.
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Asking Questions with Rocks and Minerals

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Asking Questions with Rocks and Minerals

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld's Rocks and Minerals sparks critical thinking skills with its photographs and fun facts. Use this asking questions mini lesson to encourage your readers to improve their understanding of the text by pausing and wondering about the information that is presented.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.4W.1.8RI.1.5L.1.6RL.1.7RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3SL.1.5RI.1.1W.1.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7C1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)1.6B1.10E1.6E1.13A1.6I1.13D1.7B1.13E
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Making Connections with Rocks and Minerals

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Making Connections with Rocks and Minerals

When readers are able to connect what they read to themselves, a previously read text, or their world, they are able to construct deeper meaning. This making connections mini lesson paired with Rocks and Minerals provides students the opportunity to practice this important skill.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.1.2SL.1.3SL.1.5RI.1.1W.1.5RI.1.3W.1.8RI.1.7L.1.6RI.1.9RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1b
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.6E1.10E1.6I1.13A1.7A1.13D1.7B1.13E1.7C1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)
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Retelling & Summarizing with Rocks and Minerals

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Retelling & Summarizing with Rocks and Minerals

This retelling and summarizing mini lesson shows readers how to use the features of nonfiction text to help then remember important details. Attending to the detailed photographs, captions, and diagrams in Rocks and Minerals shows students which concepts to focus on.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.1.6RI.1.6RI.1.8RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2RI.1.1SL.1.3RI.1.2W.1.5RI.1.3W.1.8RI.1.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7F1.1A1.8A1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)1.6G1.10A1.6I1.10E1.7B1.13D1.7C1.13E1.7D1.7E
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Understanding Text Structure with Rocks and Minerals

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Understanding Text Structure with Rocks and Minerals

Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld uses a variety of text structures in Rocks and Minerals. This focused mini lesson prompts readers to notice compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequencing, and descriptive text structures using a nonfiction text.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.1.2SL.1.3RI.1.1SL.1.5RI.1.3W.1.5RI.1.4W.1.8RI.1.7L.1.6RI.1.8RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1b
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.6E1.9D(iii)1.6G1.10B1.6I1.10C1.7B1.10D1.7C1.10E1.7D1.13D1.1A1.7E1.13E1.1C1.7F1.1D1.8A1.6A1.9D(i)1.6D1.9D(ii)
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Visualizing with Rocks and Minerals

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As students gain experience using visualization to better understand Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld's Rocks and Minerals, they can check their thinking with the delightful color photographs and high interest diagrams.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.1.1W.1.8RI.1.5L.1.6RI.1.6RI.1.7RI.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3W.1.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.13E1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.9D(i)1.1D1.9D(ii)1.6A1.9D(iii)1.6D1.10C1.6E1.10D1.6I1.10E1.7B1.13D1.7C
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Vowels with Rocks and Minerals

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Vowels with Rocks and Minerals

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Rocks and Minerals by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

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  • RF.1.4RF.1.3
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Vocabulary Connections with Rocks and Minerals

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Vocabulary Connections with Rocks and Minerals

This set of vocabulary development resources for Rocks and Minerals 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.1.5cL.1.6L.1.4a
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7F1.3A1.3B1.3C1.3D
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Running Record with Rocks and Minerals

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Running Record with Rocks and Minerals

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Rocks and Minerals. 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 Rocks and Minerals

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Cause and Effect Matching with Rocks and Minerals

Read Rocks and Minerals 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 Rocks and Minerals. 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 Rocks and Minerals

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Rocks and Minerals

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Rocks and Minerals 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 Rocks and Minerals

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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 Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Retelling and Summarizing with Rocks and Minerals (Spanish)

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Title: Rocks and Minerals
Author: Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: Rocks and Minerals
ISBN: 9781426310386
Publisher's Summary:
From dazzling gemstones to sparkling crystals to molten lava, this brilliantly illustrated book introduces children to the exciting world of rocks and minerals, including both the building blocks and the bling. This level two reader, written in easy-to-grasp text, will help cultivate the geologists of tomorrow This high-interest, educationally vetted series of beginning readers features the magnificent images of National Geographic, accompanied by texts written by experienced, skilled children's book authors. The inside back cover of the paperback edition is an interactive feature based upon the book. Level 1 books reinforce the content of the book with a kinesthetic learning activity. In Level 2 books readers complete a Cloze letter, or fun fill-in, with vocabulary words
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