Intermediate Guided Reading Lesson Plan
Title: Children of the Earth and
Sky Five Stories about Native
American Children
Genre:
Text Structure:
Historical
Narrative
Fiction
Informational
Level:
P
ISBN-13: 978059042853
By Stephen Krensky
Published by Scholastic
Literacy Core Objective:
4000-0703 Recognize features of narrative
text. B: identify historical fiction E. Locate
facts from a variety of informational texts.
Content Core Objective:
3rd Grade Standard 2 Objective 2 a,
Describe and compare early indigenous
people of the Americas. (Woodlands, Plains,
Great Basin, Southwest)
ELL Strategies:
Draw each kind of house for the different
Native Americans. Place the house on a
map for each tribe.
Enduring Understanding: Purpose for reading
Describe and compare Native Americans, Hopi,
Comanche, Mohican, Navajo, Mandan
“I Can Statements” - Essential Questions:
 I can describe and name each home of the
Hopi, Comanche, Mohican, Navajo and
Mandan.
 I can name foods common to Hopi,
Comanche, Mohican, Navajo and Mandan.
 I can name arts and crafts common to Hopi,
Comanche, Mohican, Navajo and Mandan.
Pacing: These activities should be completed in 2-3 sessions.
Day 1: Introduce vocabulary, background knowledge and read
Day 2: Work on graphic organizer and read
Day 3: Finish reading discuss organizer and assess
Before Reading
Vocabulary: Use the attached graphic organizer. Utilize words, content definition, and sketches to
build vocabulary.
Brittle
Ancient
Kachinas
Piki
Kneading
Whinned
Bait
Moccasins
ramada
Pemmican (Pemmican is a
concentrated mixture of fat and
protein)
Activate/Build Prior Knowledge:
 What do you know about Native Americans? Did you know that Native Americans had
many different tribes? They lived differently according to their geographic location. Look
at the map on page 30. Locate the 5 tribes of Hopi, Comanche, Mohican, Navajo and
Mandan. Two of the tribes live near and close to Utah. Which two?
 Look at the Glossary. Here we see that every tribe lived in a different style home. Let’s
read pgs 31 and 32. Let’s chant together. Notice that we can see the different homes. I am
going to pass out a graphic organizer for you. On graphic organizer, lets fill out and match
together the kinds of homes that these Native American Tribes lived in. Draw a sketch to
help you remember what the home looked like. (See organizer in after reading section too)
Tribe
Hopi
Navajo
Comanche
Mohican
Mandan

Location
Southwest
Southwest
Plains
Northeast
Plains
Home
Pueblo
Hogan
Tipi
Wigwam
Lodge
Arts, Crafts, Skills
Foods
Let’s read now the introduction. After you read pages 5-6, tell me what the author
expects you to learn from this book.
Comprehension Strategy: Determining Importance: Locate facts in the historical fiction.
During Reading
Using appropriate Guided reading strategies, students will be reading at their own pace and teachers
will be listening to students read, monitoring, giving feedback, taking anecdotal notes and running
records.
Attend to Comprehension Within, Beyond, & About the text:
After Reading
 Finish filling out the chart. What arts, crafts and foods did each tribe have?
Tribe
Hopi
Navajo
Comanche
Mohican
Mandan
Location
Southwest
Southwest
Plains
Northeast
Plains
Home
Pueblo
Hogan
Tipi
Wigwam
Lodge
Arts, Crafts, Skills
Pottery, Kachina dolls
Weavers, sheep hearders
Horsemen
Hunters
Gardeners or agriculture
Foods
Piki, cornmeal bread
Rabbit
Meat
Meat
Meat and vegetables
Attend to Comprehension Within, Beyond, & About the text:
Content Core Integration:(Science, Soc. St., Math, etc.)
Assessment:
Activities:
Using your table that you built during and
Ideas for Native Americans can be found at:
after reading, write sentences about one tribe. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/
eg: The Hopi lived in the Southwest. They
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built pueblos. They also made and used clay NativeAmerican.htm
pots. Hopi’s made beautiful detailed pots.
They ate piki a kind of cornmeal bread. And
had grand ceremonies dressed as Kachinas
*Not all activities will be done in each lesson. Some lessons may take multiple days to complete.
However, all students should be reading each time you meet.
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Arts, Crafts, Skills
Foods