A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the nonfiction / informational text mentor text picture book Locomotive by Brian Floca. An excellent book about Westward Expansion, trains, engineering, and frontier life! Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)close reading for describing text featurescomparing and contrasting storiesanalyzing the main idea and details The lesson