Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne

Dinosaurs Before Dark

By Mary Pope Osborne

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Osborne, Mary Pope. Dinosaurs Before Dark. Scholastic Inc., 1992.

Lexile Level 510L

Grade 2-3

Activity

Students will work in partners and find one scene and draw it out. Then each group will present to the class and the other students needs to guess the scene.

Learning Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3

Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to work collaboratively with a partner to draw a scene from the book.

Students will be able to take one scene out of a book and creative depict the scene for other students to guess.

Students will be able to recognize and recall scenes by artwork done by their classmates.

Learning Goal

Students will be able to engage with classmates about a fictional work by using artwork.

Notes

Nonfiction tie in can also go with this book. Students must choose a nonfiction book about dinosaurs and summarize. One page paper (handwritten) - this would be either later in the year for 2nd grade or beginning of 3rd grade.

The Girl Who Thought in Pictures The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin

Written by: Julia Finley Mosca

Illustrated by: Daniel Rieley

MLA: Mosca, Julia Finley, and Daniel Rieley. The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin. The Innovation Press, 2017.

Lexile Level: 530L (Estimated by using another book in series)

Selling Tool: A girl who was labeled as Autistic ended up doing so much more. This is a biography of a girl who ended up being successful in the field of agriculture.

Lesson Activity Question:  Everyone thinks in different ways. How do you think to solve problems?

Learning Standards: IFC Standard 1 – Using Information to build understanding. (Grade 3)

Learning Goals: Students will learn to connect ideas to their own interests. Students will learn to formulate questions about the topic with little guidance. [Students will write a sentence or two of things they are interested in outside of school.]

Learning Objective: Students will connect with other students and prior knowledge including their interests. [Students will be in groups and share their interests with other students.]

Learning Outcomes: Students will use written form to express their interests and formulate their own questions about the topics discussed in the book.

Malala’s Magic Pencil

By Malala Yousafzai

Yousafzai, Malala. Malala's Magic Pencil. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017. 

Summary:

This is a picture book based on the true story of Malala Yousafzai and her book I Am Malala. Growing up in Pakistan, Malala used to wish for a magic pencil. She wanted to use this pencil to draw a world where there was no conflict and injustice. As she get older, Malala realized the power of the written word and used her pencil to document her life and experiences of other girls and women in her country. The book is written for a younger audience and is able to convey Malala’s message at a level children can understand.

Lexile Level: 740L

Grades: 1st-3rd

Domain: Affective, Cognitive and Psychomotor


Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2

Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Goal: 

Students will understand Malala’s story, the meaning of advocacy and how they can help other children go to school.

Objective:

Students will be able to define the term Advocacy. (Cognitive)

Students will be able to identify ways they may be able to assist other children in their community. (Psychomotor)

Students will understand the importance of helping others. (Affective)

Outcome:

Students will brainstorm ways to help children in poorer region go to school. Students will identify one specific way to help children in poorer region go to school. Student will create a plan of action of how they would carry out their ideas.

Video of Malala explaining the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWKYalbPLRY


My selling tool:

https://create.piktochart.com/output/26099091-magic-pencil