Alma and How She Got Her Name Lesson Plan, Google Slides and Docs Activities

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Description

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text book Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal. This book is also available in Spanish under the title Alma y como obtuvo su nombre. Activities are in English and Spanish. A culturally-sensitive version of Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes. This is a great multicultural book perfect for appreciating names, especially at back to school time. Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.

Lessons and activities focus on:

close reading for key details
analyzing character traits
comparing and contrasting
author's message / lesson

The lesson plans include:

teacher script with strategic stopping points and questions for students to discuss
printable prompts for student post-reading responses through discussion in writing or reading response logs
4-5 day plan
Discussion questions
Suggested discussion strategies
Strategic stopping points for questioning and close reading
Anchor chart examples
Sentence stems / frames for oracy and vocabulary development
Great for bilingual classrooms
Printable worksheets for writing in a reading response log
Google Docs for student responses
Google Slides for displaying lesson ideas, discussion questions and prompts

How to Use This Resource:

whole group
small group
as a reading intervention
special education (SPED)
bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
with ELLs for ESL instruction
Distance Learning or Virtual Learning environments
Great for pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms

Your pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, first, second, third grade students will love this story!