A guided reading or interactive read aloud lesson plan for the Martin Luther King Jr. biography mentor text picture book Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier. Great for Black History Month or MLK Day! Lessons and activities focus on: Summarizing key details (4 strategies: narrative retell, timeline, graphic organizer, Somebody Wanted But Then So)close reading for analyzing character traitsdescribing vocabulary words in a storyauthor's message / lessoncomparing and contrastin