A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the fiction mentor text picture book Just Ask! Be Different, Be Brave, Be You by Sonia Sotomayor and Rafael Lopez. Great for social emotional learning (SEL), respecting differences, and community building! Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)Close reading for describing charactersMain idea and detailsAnalyzing the author's mess