Fireboat by Maira Kalman Lesson Plan and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman.  A great book for studying community, September 11th, or Patriot Day!

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
• analyzing with text evidence
• close reading for analyzing illustration to text connections
• describing author's message / lesson
• comparing and contrasting
• identifying 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
• for a substitute / in a sub folder
• 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!

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