The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore Lessons & Google Activities
Picture Book Brain
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Grade Levels
K - 3rd, Homeschool
Standards
CCSSRL.K.1
CCSSRL.K.2
CCSSRL.K.3
CCSSRL.K.4
CCSSRL.K.7
Formats Included
- PDF
Google Apps™
Pages
51 pages
Picture Book Brain
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The Teacher-Author indicated this resource includes assets from Google Workspace (e.g. docs, slides, etc.).
Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the mentor text book The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce. Great story about the power of writing and books and reading. 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)
- author's message / lesson
- analysis of text through close reading
- describing character feelings
- 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 K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your Kindergarten, first, second, or third grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
51 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
N/A
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSSRL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
CCSSRL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSSRL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSSRL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
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