Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome Lesson Plan and Google Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
2nd - 5th, Homeschool
Standards
CCSSRI.2.1
CCSSRI.2.2
CCSSRI.2.3
CCSSRI.2.4
CCSSRI.2.5
Formats Included
- PDF
Google Apps™
Pages
55 pages
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text book Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome. This is a great book for teaching about perseverance / grit, The Great Migration or for Black History Month in February! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (two strategies: timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So and narrative retelling)
- describing historical events
- analyzing author's craft to determine how the author uses details to describe an event
- close reading illustrations and text
- main idea and details
- 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
- 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 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your second, third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
55 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSSRI.2.2
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
CCSSRI.2.3
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
CCSSRI.2.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
CCSSRI.2.5
Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
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