Guitar Genius by Kim Tomsic Lesson Plan and Google Activities
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A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the biography mentor text book Guitar Genius: How Les Paul Engineered the Solid-Body Electric Guitar and Rocked the World by Kim Tomsic & Brett Helquist. An excellent biography about Lester Polsfuss aka Les Paul aka the Wizard of Waukesha! This is a great book for teaching about perseverance / grit, music history or inventors! Google Slides presentation and student activities on Google Docs.
Lessons and activities focus on:
- Summarizing key details (two strategies: timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So and narrative retelling)
- describing historical events
- analyzing author's craft
- close reading illustrations and text to describe inventions
- main idea and details
- comparing and contrasting
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
- special education (SPED)
- bilingual or Dual Language / DLI classrooms
- with ELLs for ESL instruction
- Great for 3rd, 4th or 5th grade
- Google Classroom Distance learning / virtual learning
- on chromebooks or iPads for tech classrooms to go paperless
Your third, fourth or fifth grade students will love this story!
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