Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal Lesson Plan and Activities
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Grade Levels
PreK - 3rd, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.K.1
CCSSRL.K.2
CCSSRL.K.3
CCSSRL.K.4
CCSSRL.K.5
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
23 pages
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What educators are saying
This product was helpful in the planning fo beginning of year activities for my students. The graphic organizer helped my students write constructed responses.
Amazing!! I loved using this resource as we explored the meaning of our names the beginning of the year.
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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.
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
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 pre-K, K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
Your pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, first, second, third grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
23 pages
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSSRL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
CCSSRL.K.3
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSSRL.K.4
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSSRL.K.5
Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
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