Use We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
The story is filled with rich details, not only in the text, but in the illustrations as well. This strategy helps students focus on identifying key details that build the central message of environmental protection. By examining the text and illustrations, students will learn to distinguish what is most important in the narrative and understand how these details convey the moral of the story.
In We Are Water Protectors, Carole Lindstrom writes with a clear and powerful purpose: to inspire action to protect water and the environment. Through poetic language and evocative illustrations, students can explore why the author wrote this story and how her message encourages readers to make a difference. This strategy encourages students to connect the text's purpose with their own lives and discuss ways they can become protectors of their world.
Michaela Goade's stunning illustrations and Carole Lindstrom's poetic words work together to convey meaning beyond what is explicitly stated. Students will practice making inferences about the girl's emotions, the threats to water, and the broader environmental issues the story addresses. This strategy strengthens critical thinking skills while deepening understanding of the book's themes and symbols.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom as a springboard for instruction focused on r-controlled vowels or "Bossy R".
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how r-controlled vowels are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.
This set of vocabulary development resources for We Are Water Protectors 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.
Encourage your students to take action and make a difference with this no-prep "Water Protector Pledge" activity. Inspired by We Are Water Protectors, this activity invites students to brainstorm ways they can protect water and draft their own unique pledge. It's the perfect way to spark creativity and foster a sense of responsibility for our planet's most precious resource.
From author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Michaela Goade comes a New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal winning picture book that honors Indigenous-led movements across the world. Powerfully written and gorgeously illustrated, We Are Water Protectors, issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's water from harm and corruption—inviting young readers everywhere to join the fight.
