Snow Angel Sand Angel by Lois Ann Yamanaka Lesson Plan and Google Activities
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the realistic fiction mentor text picture book Snow Angel, Sand Angel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Ashley Lukashevsky. An excellent book for study of the seasons, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, diverse environments and cultures. 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)
- using text evidence
- comparing and contrasting
- moral / lesson
- close reading to describe the impact of setting on events
- Main idea and details
- integrating information from multiple sources
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 in a reading 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
- Great for 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your second, third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!
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