Rags Hero Dog of WWI by Margot Theis Rave Lesson Plan and Google Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
2nd - 5th, Homeschool
Standards
CCSSRL.2.1
CCSSRL.2.2
CCSSRL.2.3
CCSSRL.2.4
CCSSRL.2.7
Formats Included
- PDF
Google Apps™
Pages
51 pages
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction mentor text book Rags: Hero Dog of World War One (WWI) by Margot Theis Raven and Petra Brown. This is an excellent historical, narrative nonfiction story for focusing on WWI, friendships, Veterans Day / Memorial Day / Remembrance Day and relationships. 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 central theme
- describing character traits / characteristics
- using text evidence to close read
- Main idea and details
- 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 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
51 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSSRL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSSRL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
CCSSRL.2.4
Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
CCSSRL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
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