The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba Lesson Plan & Activities
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Grade Levels
2nd - 5th, Homeschool
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSSRL.2.1
CCSSRL.2.2
CCSSRL.2.3
CCSSRL.2.7
CCSSRL.2.9
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
43 pages
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What educators are saying
Great resource! These plans and activities were very useful for teaching The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
I used this as a change of pace after state testing. Even fifth graders love being read to sometimes!
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Description
A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the autobiography mentor text book The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind by William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer and Elizabeth Zunon. This book is also available in Spanish titled El niño que domó el viento. Activities are in English and Spanish. Great for community, STEM, Earth Day, Inventions or Engineering, and units on recycling!
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- comparing and contrasting
- main idea and details
- integrating knowledge from multiple sources
- author's message / theme
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
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
Your second, third, fourth, or fifth grade students will love this story!
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Total Pages
43 pages
Answer Key
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Teaching Duration
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSSRL.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSSRL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
CCSSRL.2.3
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
CCSSRL.2.7
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
CCSSRL.2.9
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
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