First Grade Back to School Lessons Bilingual - Spanish Plans & Google Activities

Save BIG with this guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plans bundle for that focuses on 5 mentor text picture books with Google Slides and Docs activities as well as paper activities:

• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
• Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
• Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann
• Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
• Frederick by Leo Lionni

These books are also available in Spanish titled: Alma y como obtuvo su nombre, Lily y su bolso de plastico morado, Ruby mono ve mono hace, Pastel para enemigos, and Frederick. Activities are in English and Spanish!

Great titles to start your year off right by getting to know your students. Create a positive classroom community! Step into discussions about classroom rules / classroom management. Titles chosen specifically for your early learners!

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details
• close reading for describing character feelings
• using text evidence
• describing character traits
• comparing and contrasting
• analyzing 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 written responses
• 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
• great for a substitute or sub folder
• special education (SPED)
• bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
• with ELLs for ESL instruction
• Distance Learning or Virtual Learning environments
• Great for K, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd grade
• on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless

Your Kindergarten, first grade, second or third grade students will love these stories!

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