Margaret and the Moon by Dean Robbins Lesson Plan and Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text picture book Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing by Dean Robbins and Lucy Knisley. Great for STEM, computer science history, biography studies, and Women's History Month!

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
• analyzing illustrations and key details
• main idea and details
• close reading for describing character traits
• comparing and contrasting

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 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade

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

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