Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel Lesson Plan and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book Our Tree Named Steve by Alan Zweibel and David Catrow.  A beautiful story about relationships, letter writing / correspondence and loss. 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)
• central message / lesson
• writing a letter
• Main idea and details
• using text evidence to close read
• Comparing and contrasting but can easily be modified for other uses

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 K, 1st, or 2nd grade
• Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

Your kindergarten, first grade, second grade students will love this story!

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