The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Lesson and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein. A great read about Philippe Petit: The Man on Wire or for a September 11th / 9/11 connection. 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
• comparing and contrasting different versions of a story
• analyzing key details with text evidence
• author's message/lesson

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 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
• Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

Your first, second, third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!

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