Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst 4-5 Day Lesson Planner

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✏ This is a lesson plan for a 4-5 day comprehensive literacy lesson for the book Rocks in His Head by Carol Otis Hurst. The plans include a teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students. It also includes prompts for student responses in writing or thoughtful logs. This lesson is focused on a theme of inquiry/curiosity and character feelings and attributes but can easily be modified for other uses. This is an excellent book for a connection to units about rocks/minerals

This resource includes:

☞ 4-5 day plan. ✔

☛ Teacher script ✔

☞ Strategic stopping points for questioning, prompting, and close reading ✔

☛ Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development ✔

☞ Great for bilingual classrooms ✔


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