Riding+with+Rosa+Parks

Day 1
1. Preview the book. Read the table of contents. What do you know about Rosa Parks? Use the Table of Contents to guide this conversation: what might happen in each chapter? 2. "One thing good readers do to help them understand a story is to pause after a few pages to summarize, or say in their own words, what they just read." Model summarizing using a familiar story (Peter Rabbit, Little Red Riding Hood, a recent read-aloud) 3. Review the strategy of looking for parts of the word you know, then thinking about what makes sense. Use "arrested" on pg. 8 as an example. 4. Students go read p. 4-6. They re-read if they finish. Model summarizing what happened in those first few pages: "There was an unfair law that said that black people had to sit in the back of the bus. When white people got on the bus, the black people had to get up to give them their seats." Remind them that good readers stop every few pages to think about what happened and summarize. 5. Students read p. 6-9. Have volunteers summarize. Continue reading / summarizing if there's time. 6. Show them the re-telling sheet and ask them to do the beginning for next time.

Day 2
1. Go over re-telling sheets to review first two chapters. 2. Remind them about summarizing. 3. They read the last two chapters, stopping every few pages to summarize. 4. Do a few discussion questions: Why did people stop riding the buses? Why was the law unfair? Why do you think the author wrote this book? 5. Assign them to finish the re-telling sheet for next time.