Use The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles as a springboard for instruction focused hard and soft g sounds.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how hard and soft g words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words following the hard and soft g pattern.
This set of vocabulary development resources for The Story of Ruby Bridges highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Story of Ruby Bridges. 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.
