Ada's Violin by Susan Hood Lesson Plan & Activities
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Ada's Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood and Sally Wern Comport. A story about the "Landfill Harmonic" from Cateura, Paraguay. This book is also available in Spanish titled El violin de Ada: La orquesta reciclada del Paraguay. The printable prompts are in English and Spanish. Great for music integration, Earth Day, persistence and units on recycling!
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- close reading for describing character traits
- comparing and contrasting
- main idea and details
- author's message / theme
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 written responses
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
- Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
Your first, second, third, fourth or 5th grade students will love this story!
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