Lesson Plans for GRANPA SMOKE JUMPER Level X

Before Reading

Build Background
Ask questions to elicit prior knowledge and build background on the topic of wildfires and smoke jumpers.
Ask: What is a wildfire? What do you think it might be like to fight a wildfire? What kind of qualities do you think you’d need to be a good wildfire fighter? What is a smoke jumper? 

Introduce the Book
Give students their books and have them look at the cover illustration and read the title. Have them flip through the illustrations and make initial predictions about the story.
Ask: What do you see in the illustrations? What do you think this book is about? 

Read page 4 aloud. Ask students to make predictions about Andy based on this information. Give students worksheet 1 and have them complete the first column before reading the book.
Ask and say: Who are the characters you have met so far? Who do you think is telling the story? What impressions do you have about the narrator? What do you think might happen that could make the narrator change his point of view? I want you to write down your first impressions of the narrator in the first column. 

Set a Purpose for Reading
Tell students you want them to find out how the narrator changes. After they finish reading Chapter 2, they should stop and jot down what they have learned about him so far. Tell students that they will complete the worksheet when they finish reading. 

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