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Ruby and the Booker Boys by Derrick Barnes

Updated: Aug 16, 2021

EARLY CHAPTER BOOK LESSON PLAN

GUIDED ANTI-BIAS/ANTI-RACIST READING | GRADES 2-5


WELCOME

This is a reading guide designed to accompany Derrick Barnes’s chapter book Brand New School, Brave New Ruby (part of the Ruby and the Booker Boys series). We recommend that grownups read the focus book and the reading guide content before reading with young readers. This guide will help you prepare your own questions for your young readers and choose vocabulary, history, and other related topics to integrate into your learning and discussion. Lesson content was written by Zapoura Newton-Calvertand was designed to start or deepen anti-racist and anti-bias conversations in families and other learning communities.


HERE IS A PREVIEW OF OUR READING GUIDE...DOWNLOAD THE PDF FOR THE FULL GUIDE.


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