And Tango Makes Three Lesson Plan and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text picture book And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. This book is also available in Spanish titled Con Tango son tres. Activities are in English and Spanish.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• main idea and details
• author's purpose
• analyzing illustrations

The lesson plans include:

• teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
• printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
• 4-5 day plan
• Discussion questions
• Suggested discussion strategies
• Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
• Anchor chart examples
• Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
• Great for bilingual classrooms
• Printable worksheets for written responses in a reading log

How to Use This Resource:

• whole group
• small group
• as a reading  intervention
• special education (SPED)
• bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
• with ELLs for ESL instruction
• Great for K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade

Your Kindergarten, first, second, or third grade students will love this story!

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