Boxes For Katje by Candace Fleming Lesson Plan & Activities

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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text picture book Boxes For Katje by Candace Fleming and Stacey Dressen-McQueen. Great for history of World War 2 (WWII), the 4 seasons of the year, friendship and community studies!
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- close reading for describing cause and effect of setting and events
- analyzing the author's message / lesson / theme
- comparing and contrasting
- main idea and details
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
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, 3rd, or 4th grade
Your Kindergarten, first, second, third, or fourth grade students will love this story!
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