Going Down Home With Daddy Lesson Plan and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction picture book mentor text Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons and Daniel Minter. An excellent book about relationships, problem-solving, and family! 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)
• analyzing key details
• close reading to analyze character feelings using text evidence and symbolism
• comparing and contrasting
• identifying main idea
• 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
• Distance Learning or Virtual Learning environments
• Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

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

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