Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Leaving Morning

Use The Leaving Morning by Angela Johnson to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Moving can be a very difficult thing to do. There are people to say goodbye to, favorite places that will be missed and many boxes to pack. The Leaving Morning is the simple story of a young boy saying goodbye to his familiar life in the city. With literary elements to support deeper understanding, Angela Johnson paints a picture in her reader's mind. Students rely on strong imagery and text evidence to support inferring opportunities. Engaging mini-lessons support student comprehension strategies such as asking questions, identifying author's purpose, visualizing, making inferences, and making connections.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with The Leaving Morning in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with The Leaving Morning

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Asking Questions with The Leaving Morning

This mini lesson for use with The Leaving Morning draws out student questioning through references to the text and prompts to lead to higher level thinking. Students will work to raise their level of comprehension by asking questions as they read.
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Leaving Morning

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Leaving Morning

It's important for students to understand why authors write books. This identifying the author's purpose resource set guides readers to consider why Angela Johnson wrote this book and what she was trying to convey to readers through her words.
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Making Connections with The Leaving Morning

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Making Connections with The Leaving Morning

This making connection mini lesson and resource set will challenge beginning readers to use what they know about the world, other books, and their own personal experience to connect with the text in ways that deepen comprehension and extend enjoyment of the text.
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Making Inferences with The Leaving Morning

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Making Inferences with The Leaving Morning

This making inferences resource set provides readers with opportunities to infer how the main character feels about his neighborhood and his move. Students will learn to cite evidence from the story to defend their inferences.
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Visualizing with The Leaving Morning

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Visualizing with The Leaving Morning

Through strong examples from the text, students will participate in activities that will help them to visualize scenes from The Leaving Morning.
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Inflectional Endings with The Leaving Morning

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Inflectional Endings with The Leaving Morning

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Leaving Morning by Angela Johnson as a springboard for instruction focused on inflectional endings.

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

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Vocabulary Connections with The Leaving Morning

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Vocabulary Connections with The Leaving Morning

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Leaving Morning 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
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Running Record with The Leaving Morning

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Running Record with The Leaving Morning

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Leaving Morning. 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 The Leaving Morning

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Cause and Effect Matching with The Leaving Morning

Read The Leaving Morning 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 The Leaving Morning. 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 The Leaving Morning

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Leaving Morning

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Leaving Morning 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.

Writing with The Leaving Morning

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Writing with The Leaving Morning

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 The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Making Connections with The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Inferences with The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

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

Visualizing with The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

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

Writing with The Leaving Morning (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: The Leaving Morning
Author: Angela Johnson
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Family
ISBN: 9781338781991
Publisher's Summary:
Leaving home is hard when to you have to say goodbye to everyone you know. A boy and his sister experience moving day: saying goodbye to shopkeepers, friends, cousins; watching men in blue load the truck; giving a last glance around their rooms; and driving off to their new home.
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