Léon le caméléon (French Repeated Read Aloud Lessons)

Everything you need to practice reading comprehension strategies with your students, using the book Léon le caméléon by Mélanie Watt! This set includes one whole week’s worth of literacy activities (30-45 mins/day) to do with your students.

You will read the story each day, and then examine certain aspects of the text more closely (close reading). making predictions, retelling the story, making connections, imagining “la suite de l’histoire”, and sharing their opinion. There is also a bonus optional vocabulary activity to help your students learn the meaning of the work “camoufler”. Lesson plans also include opportunities for shared writing and individual responses. I have included both interactive notebook and full-page response sheet options for each activity, so you can use what works best for your students. There is also a colour poster that explains each strategy taught throughout the week.

This resource includes:

• 5 different reading comprehension activities
• 1 suggested schedule for the week
• Multiple options for independent student work following each whole-group activity
• 6 posters with definitions for important reading comprehension strategies
• 4 sentence prompts to display while sharing opinions
• instructions for an optional vocabulary extension activity

These lessons are great for both Kindergarten and first grade – in K, my students show their thinking through their pictures in the beginning of the year, and then add text to clarify and explain as the year progresses. To me, what is important during this time of our day are their ideas and their thinking! In first grade, your students who are capable could be expected to begin using writing in their responses right away.

This book is perfect for the primary grades, because the theme is about being yourself and learning to love what makes you different from everyone else!

*Please note that you will need to own/borrow the book Léon le caméléon by Mélanie Watt in order to complete these activities with your class.* I found my copy at Chapters.