That's Not Fair by Carmen Tafolla Lesson Plan and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book That's Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca's Struggle For Justice by Carmen Tafolla, Sharyll Teneyuca and Terry Ybanez. A wonderful story about the immigrant experience! Great for Women's History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, latino studies, civil rights and biography studies! 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)
• close reading for identifying text structure
• comparing and contrasting
• main idea and details
• author's message / theme

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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