Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for We Are Water Protectors

Use We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom tells the powerful story of a young girl standing up to protect water from the threat of a "black snake" oil pipeline. Guided by her ancestors' wisdom, she reminds us that water is life and must be protected.

This resource set helps students explore the book’s message while building key skills like identifying the author’s purpose, determining importance, and making inferences. It also features activities on bossy R sounds and engaging extensions for deeper comprehension.

Michaela Goade’s stunning, Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations inspire students to take the Water Protector Pledge, encouraging them to protect our planet.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with We Are Water Protectors in the drop down below.

Determining Importance with We Are Water Protectors

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Determining Importance with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with We Are Water Protectors

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Making Inferences with We Are Water Protectors

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Making Inferences with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Vowels with We Are Water Protectors

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Vowels with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Vocabulary Connections with We Are Water Protectors

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Vocabulary Connections with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with We Are Water Protectors

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Running Record with We Are Water Protectors

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with We Are Water Protectors. 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.

Water Protector Pledge with We Are Water Protectors

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Water Protector Pledge with We Are Water Protectors

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.

Determining Importance with We Are Water Protectors (Spanish)

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

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with We Are Water Protectors (Spanish)

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

Making Inferences with We Are Water Protectors (Spanish)

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

Water Protector Pledge with We Are Water Protectors (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: We Are Water Protectors
Author: Carole Lindstrom
Genre: Fiction
Themes: Water, Pollution, Conservation, Hope, Indigenous People
ISBN: 9781250203557
Publisher's Summary:

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.

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