Women’s History Biography Read Aloud Activities for Joan Procter Dragon Doctor

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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for Patricia Valdez’s book, Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles.

With 60 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic ability. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, conduct research, practice plotting story events, analyze characters, make predictions and connections, respond to writing prompts, and much more!

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It’s the ideal interactive read-aloud for educating students about the scientist Joan Procter, pursuing a passion, dedication, overcoming obstacles, reptiles, and so much more! It’s a great addition to units on Women’s History Month, women in science, zoology, reptiles, influential people in history, or biographies. Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with.

The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, to encourage students to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and to challenge students to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions – Before reading the book, students will examine the front cover and describe what they see, make predictions about what the book is about, and the questions they think the book might answer.
• Story Elements – Students fill in the boxes with words and pictures to represent the story elements.
• Summarizing – Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
• Cause & Effect – 4 differentiated versions are included. (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Setting Influences the Plot – Students will answer the questions about the setting of the story to gain a better understanding of how a story’s setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.
• Story Plot – Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.
• Timeline of Events – Students will use the story, the biography at the end of the book, and/or research to create a timeline of Joan Procter’s life.
• Character Inside & Out – Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
• Character Traits – 3 differentiated versions are included for this activity. Students will choose important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices.
• Overcoming Obstacles – Students will fill in the T-Chart with physical, emotional, or mental obstacles the character faced and describe their response to those challenges.
• Character Change – Students choose character traits to describe how the character changed throughout the story and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
• Character Development – Students describe how the character changed and developed throughout the story, state their opinion regarding which event impacted the character the most, and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
• Character Perspective – Students will compare character perspectives in the story.
• Making Connections – Students make connections to an event from the story.
• Making Inferences – Students use clues and schema to come up with two inferences they made from the text.
• Theme #1 – Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
• Theme #2 – Students answer the questions to determine the theme of the story and provide text evidence.
• Thematic Statements – Students choose the thematic statement that they believe best fits the story and include evidence from the text to support their choice.
• Sensory Details – Students choose an event from the story and describe it with the five senses.
• Compare & Contrast – Students will compare and contrast Komodo dragons with fictional dragons.
• The Perfect Playlist – Students will design a soundtrack for the story, which includes creating a playlist of FOUR songs that represent four BIG IDEAS consistently seen throughout the book and designing an album cover that symbolizes the theme of the story.
• Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle – Students will complete a crossword puzzle by matching words from the story to their definitions (ANSWER KEY included).
• Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle – Students will find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).
• 5-Writing Prompts – Students will respond to the writing prompts and provide evidence from the text to support their thinking when needed.
• #Croc on a Walk – Students will create an Instagram post of somewhere they would take a baby crocodile.
• Reptile Habitat – Students design a zoo habitat for their favorite reptile after researching what the reptile needs in order to survive. They will label the items and explain why they belong in the reptile’s environment.
• Reptile ABCs – Students choose words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to show what they know about reptiles.
• Biography – Students will research further into the life of Joan Procter.
• Who Was Joan Procter? – Students research to learn more about Joan Procter and complete a biography one-pager.
• Book Review – Students rate how much they enjoyed the book, draw a new cover, and explain why kids should or should not read it.
• Design a Book Cover – Students design a new cover for the book.
• Komodo Dragon Research Project – Option 1 – Students will conduct research on Komodo dragons using books, articles, and/or informational websites. Assign students all the included activities, or pick and choose based on the students’ academic abilities and time allotted to complete the project. The following activities are included: KWL graphic organizer; Can-Have-Are; Information Sheet; Fun Facts; Parts of a Komodo Dragon; Life Cycle of a Komodo Dragon; New Vocabulary; Research Report.
• Komodo Dragon Research Report – Option 2 – Students research Komodo dragons and complete a one-page report with information regarding the reptile’s habitat, features, diet, movement, and interesting facts.
• Reptile Research Project – Option 1 – Students will choose a reptile to research using books, articles, and/or informational websites. Assign students all the included activities, or pick and choose based on the student’s academic abilities and time allotted to complete the project. The following activities are included: KWL graphic organizer; Can-Have-Are; Information Sheet; Fun Facts; Parts of the Chosen Reptile; Life Cycle of the Chosen Reptile; New Vocabulary; Research Report.
• Reptile Research Report – Option 2 – Students research a reptile of their choice and complete a one-page report with information regarding the reptile’s habitat, features, diet, movement, and interesting facts.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.

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