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Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
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| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Four 60-minute sessions, plus time for students to read the book and respond in their logs |
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STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Stapleless Book can be used for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating vocabulary booklets . . . the possibilities are endless!
Grades 3 – 8 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
This tool allows students to create an online K-W-L chart. Saving capability makes it easy for them to start the chart before reading and then return to it to reflect on what they learned.
CALENDAR ACTIVITIES
Grades 3 – 8 | Calendar Activity | July 9
Nancy Farmer, three-time Newbery honoree, was born in 1941.
Students write original short stories in the science fiction genre based on some of Farmer's works and society's most hotly-debated issues, such as cloning, toxic waste, and brain implants.
Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity | January 6
Two famous Smiths share this birthday.
Students research Captain John Smith and Jedediah Smith, and compare them. Students then investigate the meaning of their last name.
PRINTOUTS
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
This printout helps students record ideas and situations from texts in one column, and their reactions in the second, thus making a connection between the text and themselves, another text, or the world.
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
This printable extends the familiar K-W-L’s means of organizing students’ prior knowledge, formulating inquiry questions, and recording new learning by adding space for questions for further inquiry.
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
Connection Stems give students the language (and a reminder) to support their understanding by tying new learning to what they know about themselves and their world.
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
Using this printout, students make personal associations to a text by finding and describing text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Grades 3 – 8 | Printout | Graphic Organizer
This K-W-L Chart, which tracks what a student knows (K), wants to know (W), and has learned (L) about a topic, can be used before, during, and after research projects.
STRATEGY GUIDES
Grades 3 – 8 | Strategy Guide
In this strategy guide, you’ll learn to model how students can make three different kinds of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world). Students then use this knowledge to find their own personal connections to a text.