Ron's Big Mission is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
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SUMMARY
"Ron's Big Mission" by Rose Blue is an inspiring children's book based on the true story of Ron McNair, an African American astronaut. The story takes place during the segregated era of the 1950s and follows young Ron, who has a deep passion for reading and a dream to borrow books from the public library in his racially divided town. Despite facing resistance and discrimination, Ron takes a courageous stand and decides to make a difference by peacefully protesting the library's unfair policies. With the support of his family and community, Ron's determination leads to a groundbreaking moment of integration and equality. Through its engaging narrative and vivid illustrations, "Ron's Big Mission" highlights the importance of education, the power of perseverance, and the significance of fighting for equal rights. The book serves as a reminder of the impact one individual can have in challenging injustice and creating positive change in society.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Teach students a new suffix and give examples from the book.
- Teach students how contractions are used.
- Discuss the importance of self-advocacy and strategies students can use to advocate for themselves.
- Discuss what it means to persevere and why it is important.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â 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
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
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