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Pine School Pals: The Pokémon Problem
Meet the Pine School second-grade class. Today Jun and Theo have a problem. Find out what happens in The Pokémon Problem!
By Laine Falk
From the October/November 2024 Issue
Learning Objective: Students will practice finding the problem and solution in a fiction story.
Step-by-Step Lesson Plan
Implementation
- Small group; whole group; independent reading
Pairings and Text Connections
- This comic is part of a series. Students can look at past print issues or go online to read about the Pine School Pals’ other adventures!
Before-Reading Resources
- Text Preview Bookmarks
(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and use it to preview the text.
(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and use it to preview the text.
Suggested Reading Focus
Problem/solution, text navigation (30 minutes)
- Read the first page with your students. You can assign different students different roles if you want to read this mini graphic novel aloud like a short play! The characters are all called out on the first page.
After-Reading Skills Practice
(15 minutes for each activity)
- Problem and Solution: This activity helps students reflect on the structure of the comic they have just read.
- Story Map: Students can write about events in the story.
Text-to-Speech