Otis and Will Discover the Deep Lesson Plan and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text book Otis and Will Discover the Deep: The Record-Setting Dive of the Bathysphere.  A great book for studying cooperation, discovery, or investigation! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details (4 strategies: timeline, narrative retell, Somebody Wanted But Then So and graphic organizer)
• analyzing with text evidence
• integrating information from multiple sources
• 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
• 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
• for a substitute / in a sub folder
• special education (SPED)
• Distance Learning or Virtual Learning environments
• bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
• with ELLs for ESL instruction
• 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!

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