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My Brother Martin Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for My Brother Martin will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.

With themes of inclusion, this My Brother Martin picture book by Christine King Farris is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!

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Engage Your Students with My Brother Martin Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of My Brother Martin. You can find it in the section below.
  2. Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
  3. Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with My Brother Martin reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

MY BROTHER MARTIN SUMMARY

The book, My Brother Martin, is written by Christine King Farris, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s sister. Throughout the book, Christine shares stories of her childhood growing up with Martin. The children were raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As children, they liked playing outside and even pulled pranks on their neighbors and piano teacher.

The siblings grew up playing outside with all of the neighborhood children, even the white children whose family owned the store down the street. Martin and his brother E.D., looked forward to playing outside with the other children. One day, the boys came home alone. The two white boys would not play with them because they were black. That was the first time Martin and his siblings experienced the injustice of segregation. It was that day that Martin made a promise to his mother, he was going to change the world.

Children will enjoy listening to Christine’s stories of her childhood with Martin. 

MY BROTHER MARTIN LESSON PLAN IDEAS

Each of our 400+ Starts With a Story book companions come with a teacher’s guide to make lesson planning quick and easy, printable worksheets and digital resources that cover ALL of the standards-based reading comprehension skills.

When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for My Brother Martin, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.

We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

The text-based My Brother Martin reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • asking and answering questions
  • author’s purpose
  • point of view
  • summarizing/retelling
  • visualizing

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:

  • inclusion

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • pronouns
  • prepositions
  • compound words
  • irregular verbs

MY BROTHER MARTIN ACTIVITIES

You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:

  • comprehension questions
  • 30 writing prompts with themed paper
  • vocabulary activities
  • word study print & go activities
  • ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
  • social emotional learning discussion topics
  • graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for My Brother Martin?

  • Lexile® Measure: 970L
  • Guided Reading Level: 6
  • DRA Level: N/A
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): W

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written by Christine King Farris. It was illustrated by Chris Soentpiet.

What genre is My Brother Martin?

It is a nonfiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.

How many pages are in the book?

The story is 40 pages long.

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