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Original price was: $40.50.$32.00Current price is: $32.00.Buy NowThis BUNDLE offers 12 fun and engaging book units, all offering guided reading questions and student activities designed to increase student interest, test student comprehension, help students use critical thinking skills and explore their creativity.
Includes the following units:
- Black and White | Caldecott Book Unit
- Chrysanthemum Book Unit
- The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Caldecott Book Unit
- The Lion and the Mouse | Teaching Aesop’s Fable 2 Ways
- Smoky Night | Caldecott Book Unit
- The Egg Tree | Caldecott Book Unit
- Make Way for Ducklings Guided Reading and Activities
- Saint George and the Dragon | Caldecott Book Guided Reading
- Jumanji Book Guided Reading Unit
- Hey, Al – A Guided Reading Unit
- Grandfather’s Journey | Caldecott Book Guided Reading Activities
- Snowflake Bentley Guided Reading
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$3.00Buy NowA fun and complete book unit to use alongside Arnold Lobel’s Days with Frog and Toad! This 41- page book unit will provide students with word work, spelling, reading comprehension activities, puzzles plus (as an added bonus) fun with “Five Green and Speckled Frogs“!
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FREEBuy NowA Home for Luna is a heart-warming tale about adapting to another place, displacement, our need for community and friendship, and the life-changing value of kindness.
About the story: When Luna washes up on a strange shore, she is scared and lonely. She shelters under a wooden crate and dreams of a home from long ago.She soon discovers there is beauty in her new land. “A smell filled the air. A smell like home, but not exactly.” Along the way Luna makes unexpected friends. But will she ever feel at home in a place so different from the one she remembers?
This teaching resource will help guide your teaching with this book and the themes that are contained within it. Themes include: relationships, conflict, homelessness, adapting to change. It is also a book that can lead to discussions on what living things need to survive, observable changes in our environment (sky and landscape), life cycles, ecosystems and sustainability.
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$2.50Buy NowA complete Guided Reading resource for the Caldecott book: Hey, Al!
Includes:
– Guided Reading Questions for the teacher to ask before reading (to prepare the students for the book) and after reading dealing with the plot of the story and the artwork
– Reading comprehension/Journal response student worksheet
– Journal response page for student to record their own questions (during and after reading)
– Journal responses pages (2) with art promptsAbout the book: Hey, Al is the story of a janitor named Al and his dog, Eddie. Al and Eddie had hard lives, but one day a bird offered to carry them to a magnificent island in the sky. When they arrived, Al and Eddie found it to be a paradise. However, strange things began to happen. Al and Eddie began to resemble birds, and they realized the paradise was not all it appeared to be. Al and Eddie wished to return home so they decided to escape by using their newly acquired wings to fly home. Their flight did not go according to plan as Eddie crashed into the sea and was lost. Fortunately, Eddie was able to swim home to Al. Al and Eddie were happy to return home.
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$5.00Buy NowThis reading / literacy resource has been created to use with the Caldecott winning book, Jumanji, written by Chris Van Allsburg. It includes guided reading questions, journal response pages, reading journal pages, student activity pages, extended activities, and vocabulary work. Designed to use with 3rd – 4th -5th grades.
Includes:
- Guided Reading includes Pre-Reading, About the Cover, After Reading, and About the Art questions.
- Journal Response pages include questions about the story, an area for students to develop their own questions, questions students still have after reading and art expressions.
- Reading Journal (2 pages from which to choose) on which students record pages read, new words, record story events and student opinion about the story.
- Student Activity pages include creating a story setting map (with key), art work and write a different ending.
- Extended Activity (11 from which to choose) examples: Create a diorama of a favorite scene, create a board game.
- Vocabulary Work includes a word wall (40 words), definition and sentence writing and word search.
Reading Level information about Jumanji: Level: 3.9
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$3.00Buy NowA complete Guided Reading resource for the Caldecott book: Snowflake Bentley!
Includes:
- A Guided Reading (Teacher page) to use before the book is read and contains Pre-reading questions plus questions about the cover
- A Guided Reading (Teacher page) to use after reading the book and contains questions about the plot of the story and the artwork.
- 4 Journal Response pages (Student)
– Two to use during and after the reading of the book
– Two Art prompt pages
About the book: The book is based on a true story. Martin has written about the first known snowflake photographer, Wilson Bentley, and his interest in capturing snowflakes. From the time he was a small boy, Wilson Bentley saw snowflakes as small miracles. And he determined that one day his camera would capture for others the wonder of the tiny crystal.
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$5.00Buy NowThis engaging resource offers teacher questions and activities that will help students enjoy and gain greater appreciation for Saint George and the Dragon, written by Margaret Hodges and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman (1985 Caldecott Medal award winning book) During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!
For the Teacher:
Suggested Pre-Reading, About the Cover, After Reading and About the Artwork questions are provided. These should be teacher directed.
For the Students:
- Worksheet for students to answer questions from the story
- Worksheet to produce questions both while reading and after reading
- 2 art responses
- BONUS: Dragon Shape Book to use at your discretion. Suggested uses: to create a book report or summary; to record unfamiliar vocabulary and definitions; to create their own original dragon story; to publish a dragon poem.
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$1.50Buy Now22 page resource to use with the book, Henry & Mudge under the Yellow Moon
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
About the book (Not included):
Sarah, Plain and Tall was written by Patricia MacLachlan, and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.
Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$1.50Buy Now22 page resource to use along side the book: The Enormous Turnip
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$3.00Buy NowThis Reading / Literacy resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students enjoy and gain greater appreciation for Allen Say’s book, Grandfather’s Journey. (1994 Caldecott Medal award winning book)For the Teacher:
- Suggested Pre-Reading, About the Cover, After Reading and About the Artwork questions are provided. These should be teacher directed.
For the Students:
- Worksheet for students to answer questions from the story
- Worksheet to produce questions while reading
- Worksheet to produce questions after finishing the reading
- 2 art responses
- Map making activity
- Postcard activity
- 2 extended writing activities – Students will share their own experiences and thoughts.
There are two copies each worksheet which requires students to write. One with dashed lines / One with single lines – Choose which works best based on individual student level (ability).
Reading Level: 650L Lexile (3rd Grade)
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$3.75Buy NowThis fun and engaging resource offers guided reading questions and student activities that will help students get the most from Robert McCloskey’s book, Make Way for Ducklings. (1942 Caldecott Medal award winning book!)
For the Teacher:
- Suggested Pre-Reading, About the Cover, After Reading and About the artwork questions are provided. These should be teacher directed.
For the Students:
- Worksheet for students to answer questions from the story
- Worksheet to produce questions while reading
- Worksheet to produce questions after finishing the reading
- 2 art responses
- 3 worksheets for students to go beyond the reading to answer questions that require them to share their opinions/thoughts.
- Duck shape book for students to use in any way you wish. Perhaps to write their own story, a summary of the book, to record rhyming words, vocabulary words, etc. (You decide!)
- 3 ‘Color and Cut’ pages
- Suggested extended activities (14 ideas given) – These will help you extend the learning into Science and Social Studies!
All writing pages include dashed lines because this has been designed for 1st – 2nd grades and will allow students to practice correct handwriting.
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$1.50Buy Now21 page resource to use along side the book, Mr. Putter & Tabby Fly the Plane
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
About the book (Not included):
The Whipping Boy is a Newbery medal-winning children’s book by Sid Fleischman, first published in 1986.
It is the story of a friendship that develops between Prince Brat and his whipping boy, Jemmy, who was forced to take punishments for the prince. Though these boys seem to be complete opposites, they display courage and a willingness to help one another when they are faced with danger.
Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$1.50Buy NowThis vocabulary and reading comprehension resource is designed to be used with the book Arthur’s Great Big Valentine, written by Lillian Hoban. There are 7 student pages (word scramble, word search, complete the sentences, comprehension questions for written answers plus true/false, and an art-writing activity).
About the book: This book is a story about friendship. After they have a falling out, Arthur and his best friend Norman make up with very special valentines! Perfect to read in February or anytime of the year.
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$1.50Buy Now20 page resource to use along side the book, The Secret Life of Trees
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$1.50Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.
About the book (Not included):
On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder published in 1937, the fourth of nine books in her Little House series. It is based on a few years of her childhood when the Ingalls lived at Plum Creek near Walnut Grove, Minnesota, during the 1870s. The original dust jacket proclaimed, “The true story of an American pioneer family by the author of Little House in the Big Woods“. The novel was a Newbery Honor book in 1938.Interest Level:
Grades 3 – 7Reading Level:
Grades 4 – 5
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