Read Aloud Lesson Plan and Activities Bundle (Mentor Text Mania Unit 1)

This product is JAM-PACKED with Common Core aligned lesson plans, activities, anchor chart ideas, and writing prompts for 10 of your favorite picture book mentor texts! (See the complete list below) 10 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
-A Child of Books by Oliver Jeffers
-A Very Unusual Dog by Dorothy Joan Harris
-Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
-Dear Greenpeace / Dear Mr. Blueberry by Simon James
-Frida by Jonah Winter
-How To Heal a Broken Wing by Bob Graham
-Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty
-I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr. Seuss
-Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson

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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