That Book Woman by Heather Henson Lesson Plan and Google Activities

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A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the historical fiction mentor text book That Book Woman by Heather Henson and David Small. This is a great book for back to school, library, love of reading and learning about the Pack Horse Librarians. 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)
- describing character traits / characteristics
- analyzing figurative language
- comparing and contrasting with a Venn diagram
- Main idea and details
- integrating information from multiple accounts
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 or 4th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your second, third or fourth grade students will love this story!
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