Esquivel Space-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood Lesson Plan & Google Activities

A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Esquivel Spage-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood and Duncan Tonatiuh. A great multicultural book for Hispanic Heritage Month, music history, and Latin heroes.

Lessons and activities focus on:

• Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
• close reading
• analyzing key details
• comparing and contrasting
• analyzing illustrations
• Main idea and details

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 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5thgrade

Your first, second, third, fourth, and fifth grade students will love this story!

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