Game Changers by Lesa Cline Ransome Lesson Plan and Google Activities

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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction mentor text book Game Changers The Story of Venus and Serena Williams by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome. This is a great book for teaching about Black History Month, tennis, Women's History Month or sports! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- text and illustration connection
- analyzing theme
- comparing and contrasting with a Venn diagram
- integrating information from multiple sources
- 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
- 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 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!
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