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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Who Was Walt Disney?

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Use Who Was Walt Disney? by Whitney Stewart to turn your read aloud or small group work into a time to improve comprehension and talk about the text in purposeful ways.

Introduce students to the lesser known side of the man who created the Happiest Place on Earth, Walt Disney. From humble beginnings growing up on a farm, to his career that began as an amateur animator, one thing that remained constant for Walt was his love of family. In addition to the personal details, this biography also contains amazing illustrations and secondary articles that add to the reader's understanding of Walt's life; making this text a perfect choice for a Book Club focused on exploring visual features.
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Instructional Overview

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Instructional Overview

The instructional overview includes instructional background for visual features in a text, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to host the Who Was Walt Disney? Book Club.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.4.8RI.4.1L.4.4aRI.4.2L.4.5cRI.4.3L.4.6RI.4.4W.4.9RI.4.5RI.4.7RI.4.8RI.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4
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Management Resources

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The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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Meeting 1

Focus student attention on the things that a reader can learn by attending to illustrations and photographs by browsing through copies of National Geographic magazine. Use this discussion as a springboard for the importance of attending to the visual elements in a text like Whitney Stewart's Who Was Walt Disney?
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Meeting 2

Author Whitney Stewart incorporated an abundance of illustrations to support her writing of the biography, Who Was Walt Disney? Teaching readers to pay close attention to these visual features is important because the illustrations can help improve the reader's understanding of the text.
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Meeting 3

Who Was Walt Disney? includes a variety of secondary articles that provide the reader with information he/she can use to know more about the time period and influences of Walt's life. Readers may be tempted to skip over these pages, but by drawing attention to the ways in which the secondary articles improve comprehension, readers will be more likely to explore this valuable information.
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Meeting 4

This final Who Was Walt Disney? Book Club meeting provides readers with the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of the role of visual features in the text. The culminating activity has students climbing into the author's chair and creating a new visual feature that supports the text.
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Vocabulary Connections with Who Was Walt Disney?

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Vocabulary Connections with Who Was Walt Disney?

This set of vocabulary development resources for Who Was Walt Disney? 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 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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Focus Assessment and Rubric

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Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with the visual features in a text.
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Running Record with Who Was Walt Disney?

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Running Record with Who Was Walt Disney?

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Who Was Walt Disney? 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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Management Resources - Spanish

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The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.
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About the Book

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Title: Who Was Walt Disney?
Author: Whitney Stewart
Genre: Biography, Nonfiction
Themes: History
ISBN: 9780448450520
Publisher's Summary:
Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri. His affection for small-town life is reflected in Disneyland Main Streets around the world. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography reveals the man behind the magic.
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