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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Trombone Shorty

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Use Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Children will make an immediate connection with Trombone Shorty's autobiography. As a young boy, Troy Trombone Shorty" Andrews spent his time like most children do, playing with friends and family. But unlike many children, he always had a trombone in his hand. This engaging story about a passionate boy will intrigue students to work with the text. Readers will find opportunities to make predictions, practice visualizing, understanding text structure, and summarizing the story."
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Making Connections with Trombone Shorty

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Making Connections with Trombone Shorty

This making connections lesson plan for use with Trombone Shorty is accessible for all children who are passionate dreamers. The ideas in this story will remind children of similar books with common themes.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6W.4.9RI.4.1RI.4.2RI.4.10RF.4.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.6B4.9D(ii)4.6E4.9D(iii)4.6I4.13C4.7A4.13E4.7B4.13H4.7C4.7D4.7E4.1A4.7F4.1C4.7G4.6A4.9D(i)
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Making Predictions with Trombone Shorty

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Making Predictions with Trombone Shorty

When making predictions, children refer to the text to support their ideas. The story of Trombone Shorty delivers realistic artwork and a clear narrative that will help readers consider predictable outcomes.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6RI.4.1W.4.9RI.4.2RI.4.9
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.1C4.7E4.6A4.7F4.6B4.7G4.6C4.9D(i)4.6E4.9D(ii)4.6G4.9D(iii)4.6H4.13C4.6I4.13E4.7A4.13H4.7B4.1A4.7C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Trombone Shorty

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Retelling & Summarizing with Trombone Shorty

Children will practice retelling and summarizing this inspiring autobiography by considering the guided strategy questions included in this mini lesson. Detailed text and illustrations will help students recount this fascinating story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.4.8L.4.6RI.4.2W.4.9RI.4.3RI.4.8RI.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7B4.13E4.7C4.13H4.7D4.1A4.7E4.1C4.7F4.6A4.7G4.6B4.8A4.6G4.9D(i)4.6H4.9D(ii)4.6I4.9D(iii)4.7A4.13C
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Understanding Text Structure with Trombone Shorty

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Understanding Text Structure with Trombone Shorty

Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews used different text structures to write his autobiography. Children get to work right away when reading the first page. The story starts with a two word phrase that is repeated twice, inviting children to explore the meaning behind this arrangement of text. Children will discover other text structures like description and cause and effect that help tell this story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6RI.4.1W.4.9RI.4.5RI.4.7RI.4.10RF.4.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.6I4.9F4.7B4.10B4.7C4.10C4.7D4.13C4.7E4.13E4.7F4.13H4.7G4.1A4.8A4.1C4.9D(i)4.6A4.9D(ii)4.6B4.9D(iii)
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Visualizing with Trombone Shorty

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Children will enjoy imagining the music described in this autobiography. While visualizing, readers will transport themselves into crowds of people dancing to the music that inspired Trombone Shorty.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.4.7RI.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6W.4.9RI.4.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.1C4.9D(i)4.6A4.9D(ii)4.6B4.9D(iii)4.6D4.10C4.6E4.13C4.6I4.13E4.7A4.13H4.7B4.7C4.7E4.1A4.7F
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Contractions with Trombone Shorty

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Contractions with Trombone Shorty

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.

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

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  • RF.4.3RF.4.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Trombone Shorty

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Vocabulary Connections with Trombone Shorty

This set of vocabulary development resources for Trombone Shorty 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.4.4aL.4.5cL.4.6
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  • 4.7F4.3A4.3B4.7E
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Running Record with Trombone Shorty

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Running Record with Trombone Shorty

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Trombone Shorty. 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 Trombone Shorty

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Cause and Effect Matching with Trombone Shorty

Read Trombone Shorty 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 Trombone Shorty. 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 Trombone Shorty

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Trombone Shorty

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Trombone Shorty 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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Research with Trombone Shorty

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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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Making Connections with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Research with Trombone Shorty (Spanish)

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Title: Trombone Shorty
Author: Troy Andrews
Genre: Autobiography
Themes: Award Winners, Black History Month
ISBN: 9781613127513
Publisher's Summary:
"Who's that playing out there?" Bo Diddley asked the New Orleans crowd. It was a small child who'd been nicknamed "Trombone Shorty" because his trombone was twice as large as he was. Trombone Shorty was lifted in the air and carried through the audience until he reached the stage with Bo Diddley. He has been onstage ever since. Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, where music always floated in the air, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews didn't always have the money to buy an instrument, but he did have the dream to play music. This is the story of how he made his...
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