Here Come the Girl Scouts!

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Here Come the Girl Scouts! 

Corey, S. (2012). Here Come the Girl Scouts! New York: Scholastic Press.

Awards: New York Times Editors’ Choice, 2013 Notable Social Studies Trade Book Selection, CCBC (Cooperative Children’s Book Center) Choice 2013 Selection, A National Parenting Publication Award Silver Award Winner, Bank Street College of Education’s Best Children’s Book of the Year, A Junior Library Guild Selection, and An ALA Amelia Bloomer Selection

Suggested Delivery: Read Aloud or Individual

Lexile Reading Level: AD720L

Age Range: 4-8 years

Grade Level: PreK-3

About the Book: Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low was not your typical prim and proper lady…she loved the outdoors and yearned for adventure. This book is about her and how she founded the Girl Scouts to allow girls to do anything and to help make a difference in the world.

Keywords: Adventure, Perseverance, Passion, Inspirational, Equality, Friendship

Electronic Resources:

http://blabberize.com/view/id/1421405

This Blabberize can be used as an initiation to the lesson. Using the picture of Juliette Gordon Low, students will get a clue as to who she is. This will pique interest and curiosity and activate prior knowledge.

http://www.girlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/who-we-are.html

Students can peruse the Girl Scout website to learn more about the history of the organization and what the Girl Scouts do today.

Vocabulary:

-Gumption: resourcefulness; courage

-Initiative: leading action

-Spunk: spirit

-Dainty: delicate; exquisite

-Blacksmith: person who makes objects with iron

-Monoplane: airplane with one set of wings or main surface

Reading Strategies:

-Before reading the text, students can use Shades of Meaning to deepen their understanding on the vocabulary words from the text. After choosing one of the vocabulary words, students find synonyms that they then order by stronger meanings.

-During the reading of the text, students can create Inquiry Charts. This allows students to generate meaningful questions about the text, explore their prior knowledge, share interesting facts, and reread the text.

-After reading the text, students can complete exit slips. These typically contain questions or prompts written by the teacher that provide them with an informal measure of how well the students understood the text. They also help students reflect on what they learned and allow them to ask further questions.

Writing Activity:

Students can write about a time in their lives when they did something different from what others were doing, or about a time in their lives when they were hesitant to do something against the grain. This will allow students to make connections to how the character in the book felt and apply the themes of the book to their own lives.