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Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas
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Planting Stories The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pera activities and lesson plan ideas

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Our Planting Stories Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Anika Aldamuy Denise's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

 

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

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ summarize / retell

☐ analyzing character

☐ ask and answer questions

☐ identifying genre

☐ author's purpose

☐ figurative language

 

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ diversity

☐ goal setting

 

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ proper nouns

☐ plural nouns

☐ suffixes

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Pura Belpre was the first Puerto Rican Librarian in New York City. When she started working in the library, she realized that there weren’t any of the stories and folktales that she was familiar with in Puerto Rico. She decides to share her stories during story hour and through puppet shows and eventually publishes a book.

Pura travels across the country and from classroom to classroom planting her story seeds and educating about her homeland. When she returns to the library, she sees that her story seeds have bloomed and everyone is telling her stories.

Students will love learning about Pura and how she shared her stories with children everywhere.



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