Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code Lesson Plan & Activities

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A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction / informational text mentor text picture book Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: a Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac. Great for Veteran's Day, Native America Heritage Month, and biography 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 illustrations
- describing character traits
- comparing and contrasting accounts
- analyzing the 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 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade
Your second, third, fourth, or fifth grade students will love this story!
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