Martin’s Big Words Read Aloud-Martin Luther King Jr. Activities

These Martin’s Big Words lesson plans and comprehension activities are a great way to teach and celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Our interactive read-aloud lesson plan is designed to be taught over multiple lessons. This allows students an opportunity to dive deeper into the text, make connections to the characters and events and most importantly, fall in love with the story.

Each lesson provides students a different purpose for revisiting the text, talking about it and responding to it.

To teach these lessons you will need the book:

Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport

This Resource Includes:

• Detailed lesson plans
• Comprehension questions
• Whole group response to text activities
• Response to text worksheets
• Writing pages
• Vocabulary cards and worksheets
• Quiz
• Retelling puppets
• Craftivity template