A thorough lesson plan takes your first grade class through Jane Yolen's beautiful Owl Moon. It crafts the unit with clear objectives, high-level guiding questions, cloze activities and sentence frames, and extension activities at the end of the lesson plan that are sure to get your kids to think critically.

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english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the lesson as a way to introduce figurative language, possibly before a narrative writing or poetry unit
• Have kids consider the guiding questions as a group, or in individual reading journals through the book

Classroom Considerations

• Resource is based on the use of a document camera, but you could adapt it to meet your technological needs

Pros

• Assesses the book's complexity, its place in your curriculum, and any challenges that you might be able to anticipate for your learners
• Comes with an editable version of the lesson plan (attached)

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.7 RL.1.10 W.1.2 W.1.8 SL.1.1.a SL.1.2 SL.1.5 SL.1.6 L.1.1.a L.1.2.a L.1.4.a L.1.5.a