Description

Overview:

This lesson provides teachers with support for using text-dependent questions to help students derive big ideas and key understandings while developing vocabulary from the text Blue Willow. Janey's father is an immigrant worker and this forces Janey and her family to move around every few months, but Janey finds a friend named Lupe and a place she would like to call home permanently. Janey has to go to Camp Miller School for immigrant children like herself and she finds once again she must learn whether the new teacher will be a friend or just another teacher like the ones before her.

Subject:

Arts and Humanities

Level:

Upper Primary

Grades:

Grade 4

Material Type:

Lesson Plan, Unit of Study

Author:

Doris Gates

Provider:

Basal Alignment Project

Provider Set:

West Virginia District

Date Added:

12/31/2013