The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry Lesson Plan and Activities

✏ This is an interactive read aloud lesson plan for a 4-5 day Comprehensive Literacy Language Workshop for the mentor text book The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. The plans include a teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students. It also includes prompts for student responses through discussion or in writing or thoughtful logs. The Great Kapok Tree is the title in English and can be found under the title El gran capoquero in Spanish and the lesson lends itself for either English or Spanish or dual language / dual immersion instruction. This lesson is focused on a theme of author’s purpose, close reading, character perspective and key details but can easily be modified for other uses.

This resource includes:

☞ 4-5 day plan. ✔

☛ Teacher script ✔

☞ Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading ✔

☛ Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development ✔

☞ Great for bilingual classrooms ✔

☛ Printable written response pages for students to write on printed pages or to paste into thoughtful logs / notebooks in ENGLISH and SPANISH ✔

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