Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes Lesson Plan, Google Slides and Docs Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text book Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. This book is also available in Spanish titled Crisantemo. Activities are in English and Spanish! Great story for back to school or social emotional learning (SEL)! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details using text evidence
• close reading to describe character feelings
• analyzing author's message / lesson

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
• Google Docs for student responses
• Google Slides for displaying lesson ideas, discussion questions and prompts

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
• Distance Learning or Virtual Learning environments
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

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

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