Lesson Plans, Activities, and Assessments for Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mailard
Use Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Mailard to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Fry Bread: A Native American Story shares the history, culture, and tradition of a special Native American dish, fry bread. Through powerfully written verse and playful illustrations, students can discover that fry bread is more than just a food, it is all of us. The story celebrates Native American life while reminding us of the importance of family and love.
This resource set features a lesson on double consonants, a vocabulary list that includes several Native American terms, and an extension activity that will inspire reflection and creativity among all students. Students can delve into comprehension skills such as making inferences, making connections, asking questions, determining importance, and identifying the author's purpose.
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Assessments for The Widow’s Broom by Chris Van Allsburg
Use The Widow’s Broom by Chris Van Allsburg to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson focuses on prepositional phrases, grade-level vocabulary building, and an extension activity designed to spark students' imagination and promote creative writing.
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Assessments for Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly
Lynda Mullaly Hunt’s Fish in a Tree is a heartwarming story that resonates with readers of all ages. With themes of identity, perseverance, and the power of kindness, this book offers a rich opportunity for students to engage deeply with the text. Following the journey of Ally Nickerson, a clever and resilient student, readers will explore how character traits, both internal and external, evolve over the course of the story.
Lesson Plans, Activities, and Assessments for The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad
Use The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Olympic medalist, Ibtihaj Humammad, combines the excitement of the first day of school, the strength of sisterhood, and the importance of embracing who you are. It serves as a gorgeous beginning of the school year read for any upper-grade elementary classroom or home. The resource packet includes grade appropriate lessons about identifying the author's purpose, making connections and inferences, retelling and summarizing, and synthesizing.
Additionally, the resource packet contains a lesson focusing on reading, spelling, and defining the meanings of compound words.
Persuasive Writing Activity for Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
Persuasive Writing Activity for Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
Pair this persuasive writing activty with the text and invite students to take a page out of Sarah's books as they write persuasive letters to the principal asking for a new holiday to be honored and celebrated at school.
Disguise the Turkey Activity for Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Disguise the Turkey Activity for Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Invite students to design a disguise for Turkey using this paired art activty that be used at a center, for early finishers, or as a fun actvity at your Thanksgiving celebration. Make it simple with crayons and markers, or break out our craft supplies and invite students to make more elaborate disguises with glue, feathers, paper, and pipe cleaners!
Design a Balloon Activity for Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Design a Balloon Activity for Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
After reading the book invite students to design a balloon honoring one of thier Thanksgiving traditions. Use this paired worksheet as a planning page. Then encourge student to bring thier plan to life with real balloons, paper, glue, and other craft supplies.
Determining Importance with How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting
Determining Importance with How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story by Eve Bunting
Making Connections with The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene
Making Connections with The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene
Retelling and Summarizing with Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Retelling and Summarizing with Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Build Stronger Vocabularies with Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
Build Stronger Vocabularies with Thank You Sarah: The Woman Who Saved Thanksgiving by Laurie Halse Anderson
Through engagin in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necesssary to comprehend this story and many others.
Focus on Onomatopoeias with Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
Focus on Onomatopoeias with Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how onomatopoeias can bring a text to life before engaging in both guided and independent practice with onomatopoeias.
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