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THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
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 This THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read-aloud of the picture book, THE OLDEST STUDENT: HOW MARY WALKER LEARNED TO READ by Margaret Wise Brown, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

 

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

 

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ RETELL

☐ ANALYZE CHARACTER

☐ AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ CONJUNCTION

☐ COLON

☐ COMMA

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ PERSEVERANCE

☐ GROWTH MINDSET

☐ INEQUALITY

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read is a story embedded in growth mindset, historical references, and that of resiliency.

Mary Walker grew up in slavery in the 1860s, learning the rules of the south quickly as an African-American. She had no time to read: she worked, and worked, and worked. When the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, Mary and her family stayed in the south and worked with her mother.

She then had children, and with three hungry mouths, there was still no time to learn to read.  They grew up, and Mary outlived her family at the incredible age of 114. It was then, sitting in her Retirement Home, that she decided to learn to read. She studied and studied, and was finally able to read the signs all over the city. The squiggles came to life. She then preached with her church about how you are never too old to learn something new.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:


➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

  • narrative
  • persuasive / opinion
  • descriptive
  • expository / informative
  • creative / story writing
  • procedure / how-to
  • list making
  • letter / postcard writing
  • poem
  • book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables