This no prep product is a blend of lesson plan & interactive reading notebook. Each interactive page is paired with a mentor text to use with that lesson and a blank template in case you want to choose a different book to use. It's aligned with Common Core State Standards and includes a lesson for each of the literature & informational standards.

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This resource is not editable, but it does include blank organizers.

Literature Standards Covered

• genre
• text-based evidence
• theme
• summarizing
• compare and contrast characters, character traits
• figurative language
• plot
• narrator point of view
• compare and contrast stories in the same genre

• informational text features
• text-based evidence
• main idea and details
• summarizing
• making connections
• context clues
• text structure
• point of view
• author's viewpoint
• reference sources
• conducting research

1. Baseball Saved Us
2. Passage to Freedom
3. Fox
4. Grandpa's Teeth
5. Train to Somewhere
6. Poetry for Young People
7. My Rotten Red-headed Older Brother
8. Voices in the Park

1. Lives of the Scientists: Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull & Kathryn Hewitt
2. Hope and Tears Ellis Island Voices by Gwenyth Swain
3. Freedom Heroines: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4. A River Ran Wild By Lynne Cherry
5. The Transcontinental Railroad by Gillian Houghton
6. To the Golden Mountain by Lila Perl
7. History.com