"The Girl With a Mind for Math" Book Companion Activities

The Girl With a Mind for Math Book Companion Activities

An exceptional teaching resource meticulously created to accompany the inspiring book by Julia Finley Mosca, which showcasing the life of renowned engineer Raye Montague. This resource is equipped with 55 'print-and-go' inventive reading activities, making it perfect for both public school teachers and homeschoolers.

Flexibility in Teaching

This resource can be adapted to suit various classroom settings, catering to diverse student learning curves. It can be effectively used in large group discussions or smaller study circles or even as homework assignments.

Coverage of Language Arts Subjects

• Context clues identification,
• Story elements determination,
• Theme discerning and more.

Ideal for grades between 3 and 5; students will have the opportunity to practice crucial skills like plotting story events and character analysis while interacting with an educational read-aloud narrative.

Broad Scope of Activities

Listed among other things are:

1. Summarizing tasks: where students complete graphic organizers highlighting key storyline features.
2. Investigative text exercises: focusing on connotative expressions like figurative language. Also, tracking event sequence within chapters through differentiated versions of Cause & Effect sheets.


Included among other creative tasks are:
• Creative writing prompts encouraging self-expression supporting with text evidence,


• Research opportunities allowing students to delve deeper into contextual themes related Women's History Month or Black History Month among others.

Enrichment of the resource

• Crossword puzzles enhancing word recognition,


• Word search puzzles ensuring thorough grasp on critical keywords found within the story thus boosting comprehension.

Aficionados of STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) education would find this resource especially attractive due to its focus on celebrating women's contributions towards engineering, as seen through real-world representation of the character Raye Montague. In essence, The Girl With a Mind for Math Book Companion Activities extends budding learners' understanding and stimulates appreciation about underlying themes like resilience and overcoming obstacles, thereby emerging as an indispensable part of meaningful education.