This product is a blend of lesson plan & interactive Reading Notebook. Each interactive page is paired with a mentor text to use with that lesson and a blank template in case you want to choose a different book to use. It’s aligned with Common Core State Standards and includes a lesson for each of the Literature & Informational standards.
This is a MONEY-SAVING bundle of the following two products:
Literature Standards Covered
- genre
- text-based evidence
- theme
- summarizing
- describing characters, character traits
- figurative language
- poetry, drama, and prose
- narrator point of view
- compare and contrast stories
Informational Standards Covered
- types of nonfiction
- text-based evidence
- main idea and details
- summarizing
- writing explanations using historical, scientific, or technical text
- context clues
- text structure
- cause & effect
- point of view
- text features and oral representations
- author’s reasons and evidence
- conducting research
Mentor Text Used for Literature Standards (You may substitute with another book you have)
- The Stranger
- Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind
- Chrysanthemum
- Train to Somewhere
- Favorite Greek Myths
- Poetry for Young People
- Greek Myth Plays (Scholastic)
- Voices in the Park
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Mentor Text Used for Informational Standards
- A Child’s Introduction to Art: by Meredith Hamilton and Heather Alexander
- The Greek News By Anton Powell
- Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo
- A Warmer World By Caroline Arnold
- To the Golden Mountain by Lila Perl
- History.com
*These mentor texts can be easily found at your public library, but may also be easily substituted with text you already have.
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