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Use Rosa by Nikki Giovanni to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Big changes can happen when one person simply has had enough. In this award winning book Rosa, author Nikki Giovanni tells the story of the day Rosa Parks refused to move. It was an ordinary day that began with Rosa feeding her family ended with a decision that changed a nation. A caring daughter and talented seamstress, Rosa wanted nothing more than to go home to check on her ill mother and make a special dinner for her husband. When she encountered yet another experience of inequality, Rosa found an inner strength and chose to simply say no". Students will learn about this remarkable woman while summarizing important events and making text-to-world connections.

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Making Connections with Rosa

Making connections to an event that shaped American History might be daunting, but author Nikki Giovanni has created an accessible book for students to practice with. This mini lesson will guide readers through making text to self, text to world, and text to text connections.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RI.5.1W.5.9RI.5.2L.5.6RI.5.8RI.5.9RI.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4SL.5.1cSL.5.1dSL.5.2W.5.8

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5.7D5.7E5.1C5.7F5.1A5.7G5.6A5.9D(i)5.6B5.9D(ii)5.6E5.9D(iii)5.6I5.13C5.7A5.13E5.7B5.13H5.7C

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Making Predictions with Rosa

Making predictions, before, during, and after reading allows students to more fully understand the text. Practice this skill while reading Rosa to comprehend this important time in history.

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SL.5.2W.5.8W.5.9RI.5.1L.5.6RI.5.3RI.5.8RI.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4SL.5.1cSL.5.1d

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5.9D(iii)5.7A5.13C5.7B5.13E5.7C5.13H5.7D5.1C5.7E5.1A5.7F5.6A5.7G5.6B5.8A5.6C5.9D(i)5.6E5.9D(ii)5.6I

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Retelling & Summarizing with Rosa

Author Nikki Giovanni includes descriptive details and illustrations to help tell the story. Emerging readers will learn how to use these elements to retell and summarize important information from the text.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RI.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4SL.5.1cSL.5.1dSL.5.2W.5.8RI.5.1W.5.9RI.5.2L.5.6RI.5.3RI.5.8

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5.9D(ii)5.6A5.9D(iii)5.6G5.13C5.6I5.13E5.7B5.13H5.7C5.7D5.7E5.7F5.7G5.1C5.9D(i)5.1A

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Understanding Text Structure with Rosa

This mini lesson will focus students' attention on the way author Nikki Giovanni illustrates time in Rosa. Part of the story takes place in one day to inform the reader about Rosa Parks. The rest of the story is dedicated to the events that followed Rosa's resistance.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RI.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4SL.5.1cSL.5.1dSL.5.2W.5.8W.5.9RI.5.1L.5.6RI.5.2RI.5.8

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5.10C5.6A5.13C5.6I5.13E5.7B5.13H5.7C5.7E5.7F5.7G5.9D(i)5.9D(ii)5.1C5.9D(iii)5.1A

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Visualizing with Rosa

The descriptive words in Rosa prompt readers to visualize what people are thinking and saying in the book. Noteworthy illustrations further support readers as they practice visualizing with this mini lesson.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

SL.5.1cSL.5.1dSL.5.2W.5.8W.5.9L.5.6RI.5.1RI.5.10RF.5.3RF.5.4

TEKS Alignment

5.10C5.6G5.13C5.6I5.13E5.7A5.13H5.7B5.7C5.7E5.1C5.7F5.1A5.9D(i)5.6A5.9D(ii)5.6D5.9D(iii)5.6E

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Comprehension Assessment with Rosa

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Rosa.

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Running Record with Rosa

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Rosa. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Making Connections with Rosa (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Rosa (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Rosa (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Rosa (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Rosa (Spanish)

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About the Book

Title: Rosa

Author: Nikki Giovanni

Genre: Biography, Nonfiction

Themes: Black History Month, Women's History Month, Award Winners

ISBN: 9781429939676

Publisher's Summary:

She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.

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