Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Use Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The award-winning Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille tells the early life story of the inventor of the Braille alphabet. Due in part to a tragic accident, Louis was just five years old when he lost his sight. This powerful, nonfiction story is the perfect backdrop for students to use as they dive into comprehension work focused on determining importance, making connections and predictions, synthesizing, and understanding text structure.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille in the drop down below.

Determining Importance with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Determining Importance with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

When readers tackle nonfiction text, the amount of detailed information can sometimes be overwhelming. Encourage students to practice attending to the most important details with this ready-to-use determining importance mini lesson to pair with Jen Bryant's Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille.
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Making Connections with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Making Connections with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

One way for readers to better comprehend the information Jen Bryant presents in Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille is for them to connect to the text. Identifying similarities between the story and their own life, other texts they have read, and the world allows students to think deeply about the details of the story.
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Making Predictions with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Making Predictions with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant provides an ideal springboard for practice with making predictions. As the students understand Louis' determination, they will be able to make logical predictions about what will happen when Louis encounters roadblocks on his way to learning to read.
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Synthesizing with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Synthesizing with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

As students read Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille, they will realize the great amount of adversity that Louis faced on his quest to learn to read. This synthesizing mini lesson will guide students in discovering the ways that the events of Louis' life effected him.
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Understanding Text Structure with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Understanding Text Structure with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Author Jen Bryant incorporated a variety of text structures into Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. Paying attention to cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and description will make your students stronger readers.
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Parts of Speech with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Parts of Speech with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

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

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Vocabulary Connections with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Vocabulary Connections with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

This set of vocabulary development resources for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Running Record with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Cause and Effect Matching with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

Read Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. 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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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.

Just for Fun with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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Just for Fun with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille

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.

Determining Importance with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Making Connections with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Making Predictions with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Synthesizing with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Just for Fun with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Spanish)

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Title: Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
Author: Jen Bryant
Genre: Biography, Nonfiction
Themes: History, Perseverance, STEAM / STEM, Family, Growth Mindset
ISBN: 9780449813379
Publisher's Summary:
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet—a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
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