For Educators
For Educators
Classroom teachers can be involved or not, depending on how things will work best at your school
Get physical books to kids (via school curbside checkout days, public library, or delivery per school).
Provide links to the chapter read alouds and Choice Board.
Decide on your start and end date. You can start when it works for you and your school. See this suggested timeline if your students are going to read on the same schedule:
Week 1-- Chapters 10-20
Week 2--Chapters 21-31
Week 3-- Chapters 32-42
Week 4-- Chapters 43-53
Week 5-- Chapters 54- end
Front Desk Resources (contains additional possible reading timeline)
LMTS-Created Resources
Activity Hyperdoc (from Monica Millen)
Intro Slideshow (from Maegan Heindel)
Seesaw Activities (from Maegan Heindel)
Push out a Padlet and have students share pictures of themselves with the book or a drawing of a character from the book. Example
Share what you've created or learned through the Choice Board!
Prompt one: As you read Front Desk and get to know Mia, what are some things about her life that you have in common with her? In what ways is she different from yourself?
Prompt two: The author Kelly Yang has based elements of this story on her own life, so while the story is a work of fiction, it is grounded in the real-life experience of a working-class immigrant family in the USA. Why do you think Kelly Yang chose to fictionalise her life story rather than writing a straight autobiography? Conversely, why do you think she chose to include elements of her life story rather than writing a completely fictional book?
Prompt three: In the story Mia enters an essay writing contest with the hopes that winning it would help her family, however the entry fee requires her to hold onto money when her parents are struggling financially. If you were in Mia’s shoes, what would you do and why?
Prompt four: Which character(s) do you look up to in the story? Why do they make a good role model?
Prompt five: A theme is a central topic, subject or message within a story. What do you think is a theme in this story? Why?
Prompt six: After completing the story, share your favorite part of the story and explain why.
Prompt seven: (link back to prompt one to have students reflect on this again after completing the story with the addition) What do you admire about her that you would like to see in yourself?
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Host an all 5th-grade Zoom that students can join. Do as a whole group or in breakout rooms.
Join 5th grade classroom Zooms to lead the digital breakout.
Let 5th grade teachers host their own.
Send link to students and let them participate on their own time.
Host an all 5th-grade Zoom that students can join. Share scores out at the end.
Send link to students and let them participate on their own time.