The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon Lesson Plan and Google Activities
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text picture book The Astronaut Who Painted the Moon The True Story of Alan Bean by Dean Robbins and Sean Rubin. This is a great book for teaching about space, the moon, space, arts and biographies of scientists. 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 text structure
- describing opinions and point of view
- integrating information from multiple sources
- 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 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your first, second, third or fourth grade students will love this story!
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