Mae Jemison Craft + Interactive Read Aloud | Black History | Women's History

Engage your young readers and expand your students reading comprehension skills during story book read alouds with this interactive read aloud kit that provides hands-on timeline craft, inferencing, and more.

Featuring Mae Jemison: Featuring Mae Above the Stars by: Roda Ahmed.

Your students will discover the incredible life of Mae Jemison; a doctor, engineer, and NASA astronaut. Mae has always reached for the stars and in 1992, Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space.

Included in this resource is an optional lesson outline featuring

5 days of lesson planning:

Day 1: Pre-Lesson:

• vocabulary
• making predictions
• activate prior knowledge

Day 2: Story Elements

• timeline worksheets
• pocket chart timeline cards
• timeline craft

Day 3: Character Traits (inside and outside)

• character analysis
• pocket chart traits
• venn diagram

Day 4: Making Connections

• connections to text
• inferences
• problem / solution
• cause / effect

Day 5: Authors Purpose

• theme
• message

What's Inside?

• 5 day lesson plan outline
• general comprehension questions
• visual supports
• photos in real life (if avaliable)
• vocabulary cards - 4 words from the text with pictures and child friendly definitions
• vocabulary worksheets (differentiated)
• pocket chart character traits
• pocket chart timeline
• student worksheets: character traits, connections, and analysis, cause and effect, problem/ solution, inferences, venn diagram, main idea, author's message and purpose, and theme.
• timeline craft
• optional writing pages with sentence starters
• *some resources include a bonus: become the illustrator guided drawing.

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Important Note: You must have the physical book to use this resource. This is NOT a stand-alone product and is intended to be used as a book companion. The character and story clipart are not exact replicas of the original story, but were hand-drawn with some adaptations to my own design to comply with all copyright laws. I am not affiliated with the author or publisher of this book.