Read Aloud Lesson Plan and Activities Bundle (Mentor Text Mania Unit 4)

This product is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned lesson plans, activities, anchor chart ideas, and writing prompts for 11 of your favorite picture book mentor texts! (See the complete list below) 11 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:
-What Do You Do With An Idea by Kobi Yamada
-What Do You Do With A Problem by Kobi Yamada
-Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
-Papa’s Mechanical Fish by Candace Fleming
-A Bike Like Sergio’s by Maribeth Boelts
-Jack’s Worry by Sam Zuppardi
-Let Me Finish by Minh Le
-Orion and the Dark by Emma Yarlett
-Sidewalk Flowers by JonArno Lawson
-The Wednesday Surprise by Patricia Polacco
-Weekend With Wendell by Kevin Henkes

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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