The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham Lesson Plan and Google Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
3rd - 5th, Homeschool
Standards
CCSSRL.3.1
CCSSRL.3.2
CCSSRL.3.3
CCSSRL.3.4
CCSSRL.3.7
Formats Included
- PDF
Google Apps™
Pages
51 pages
Picture Book Brain
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the narrative nonfiction picture book mentor text book The Cat Man of Aleppo by Irene Latham, Karim Shamsi-Basha or Yuko Shimizu. Great story for biography studies, Middle East and community! 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 point of view
- close reading for word choice analysis
- community and author's message / lesson
- 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 in a reading log
- 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 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
51 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
CCSSRL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
CCSSRL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
CCSSRL.3.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
CCSSRL.3.7
Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
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