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Challenges Lesson Plans

In August, we are featuring lesson plans using titles from our Summer Fun Reading list that focus on a theme of "Challenges."
Accessible audio versions of these titles are available from RFB&D.

 

Grades: K-2

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
Theme: Understanding and Overcoming Being Worried; Writing Skills: Beginning Paragraphs, Using the Writing Process and Graphic Organizers
Duration: 2-3 class periods
Title: Understanding Differences in The Deaf Musicians by Pete Seeger and Paul Dubois Jacobs
Theme: Disability Education
Duration: 45 minute class session

Grades: 3-5

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco
Theme: Appreciating the Author’s Use of Humor and Suspense and Making and Writing Predictions and Alternate Endings
Duration: 2 class periods
Title: Rules by Cynthia Lord
Theme: Disabilities and Communication
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: Understanding Personal Perspective in Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
Theme: Perspectives and Influencing Factors
Duration: 45 minute class session
Title: Probuditi! by Chris Van Allsburg
Theme: Predicting and Verifying for Comprehension
Duration: 30 minutes

Grades: 6-8

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Theme: Diversity
Duration: One class session
Title: Creating Motivational Classroom Posters Using Profiles in Sports Courage by Ken Rappoport
Theme: Courage in Sports and Positive Life Choices
Duration: Two 45 minute class sessions
Title: Mini Classroom Debate Using The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Theme: Debate
Duration: Two 45 minute class sessions

Subject: Social Studies

Title: Ancient Greece and the Olympics: A Nonfiction Companion to Hour of the Olympics by Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce
Theme: Comparing and Contrasting
Duration: 45 minute class session (independent project time)

Grades: 9-12

Subject: Reading and Language Arts

Title: Creating a Time Capsule for At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Theme: Making Connections to Literature
Duration: Two 45 minute class sessions