Read Aloud Lesson Plan and Activities Bundle (Mentor Text Mania Vol 1 -30 books)

This product is JAM-PACKED with interactive read aloud aligned lesson plans, activities, anchor chart ideas, and writing prompts for 30 of your favorite picture book mentor texts! (See the complete list below) 30 weeks of Comprehensive Literacy Language Workshop lessons. The plans include teacher scripts with strategic stopping points and questions for students and anchor chart ideas. It also includes prompts for student responses through discussion or in writing or thoughtful logs.

WHAT’S INCLUDED?
Activities cover skills such as:
Using evidence to describe, infer, and draw conclusions
Summarizing
Identifying and supporting author’s message / lesson
Identifying and supporting character traits
Explaining figurative language
Identifying emotions, feelings, and vivid language
Supporting opinions
Comparing characters
Comparing texts to other texts
Defining words using context clues
…and more!

There are also multiple writing prompts for every book that are text-dependent and require using text evidence to explain.

Activities are for the following books:
-Journey by Aaron Becker
-Quest by Aaron Becker
-Return by Aaron Becker
-Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
-Emmanuel’s Dream by Laurie Ann Thompson
-Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty
-Ada Twist Scientist by Andrea Beaty
-Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming
-The Curious Garden by Peter Brown
-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry
-The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
-The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
-The Uncorker of Ocean Bottles by Michelle Cuevas
-They All Saw a Cat by Brendan Wenzel
-A Bike Like Sergio’s by Maribeth Boelts
-Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
-A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers
-In Mary’s Garden by Carson Kugler and Tina Kugler
-Jack’s Worry by Sam Zuppardi
-Let Me Finish by Minh Le
-The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce
-My Name Is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
-Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett
-Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
-The Wednesday Surprise by Patricia Polacco
-Weekend With Wendell by Kevin Henkes
-What Do You Do With An Idea? by Kobi Yamada
-What Do You Do With A Problem? by Kobi Yamada

If you don’t own all these books, I encourage you to take advantage of your library! They are all wonderful texts to share with your students!

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