3rd Grade Earth Day Read Aloud and Google Activities Mega Bundle
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Save BIG with this guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan and activities bundle for Earth Day. Great titles to teach your third grade students about the rainforest, environmentalism, and making a difference in your community! Titles chosen specifically for your students to celebrate and learn about April's Environmental Awareness Day or Arbor Day! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
4 mentor text picture book lessons and activities included:
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
- Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
- The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)
- Close reading for describing character feelings / emotions
- character traits / characteristics
- Main idea and details
- Lesson / Author's Message
- Comparing and contrasting but can easily be modified for other usesanalyzing
- AND MORE!
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
- Google Docs for student responses
- Google Slides for displaying lesson ideas, discussion questions and prompts
How to Use This Resource:
- whole group
- small group
- as a reading intervention
- great for a substitute or sub folder
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for third grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your 3rd grade students will love these stories!
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