Thunder Boy Jr by Sherman Alexie Lesson Plan and Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie and Yuyi Morales.
Great for names, back to school, Native American studies, and multicultural diverse 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)
• Describing character traits / characteristics
• Main idea and details
• Lesson / Author's Message
• 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 K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
• Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

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

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