Teaching Resource
Who Is Rosa Parks? – Shared Reading and Activity
PDF, PowerPoint, | 15 pages|Grades: K, 1 - 2A 15-slide PowerPoint to use as a shared reading activity about Rosa Parks.
Use this resource as a shared reading activity for your primary students during Black History Month in February.
Display this PowerPoint on your screen or whiteboard as a slideshow. Read the text aloud to the students, stopping to ask questions along the way. We have included possible questions for you to ask in the notes section of each slide. Then, reread the text allowing your students to join in with the reading. Finally, complete the follow-up activity on the last slide.
A complete set of instructions on how to use this shared reading and activity is included in the PowerPoint.
Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.10
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C
Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.3
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10
With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4.B
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.B
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.8
Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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