My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz Lesson Plan & Google Activities
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A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz by Monica Brown and Rafael Lopez. This is a great book for teaching about Hispanic Heritage Month, Latin History, music history, or Women's History Month! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- close reading
- comparing and contrasting
- analyzing main idea and details
- analyzing illustrations
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
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your first, second, third, or fourth grade students will love this story!
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