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Mr. Popper’s Penguins Complete Book Unit
$5.00
🐧A book unit for Mr. Popper’s Penguins which is easy-to-use, print-and-go unit and provides everything you need to teach and guide students through the book!

🐧Includes:

-Teacher’s Guide – Brief and detailed chapter summaries, vocabulary with definitions, chapter questoins and answers.

-Student Pages – Questions and vocabulary for each chapter

-Student Art Pages – For students to draw a scene from an event that occurred in each chapter.

-2 Quizzes – Short answer questions for Chapters 1-10 and 11-20

-Vocabulary (extra) Work – Crossword puzzle and matching exercise. Can be used for review, reinforcement or testing.

-Answer Keys
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Literature BUNDLE | 12 Amazing Book Units
$37.00
This 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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A Home for Luna | Teaching Guide
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A 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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Hey, Al – A Guided Reading Unit
$2.50

A 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 prompts

About 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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Jumanji Book Guided Reading Unit
$5.00
This 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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Snowflake Bentley Guided Reading
$3.00
A 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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Saint George and the Dragon | Caldecott Book Guided Reading
$5.00
This 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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Grandfather’s Journey | Caldecott Book Guided Reading Activities
$3.00
This 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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Make Way for Ducklings Guided Reading and Activities
$3.75
This 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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Ramona the Brave Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
For a girl as enthusiastic about life as Ramona, starting the first grade should be easy! But with a teacher who doesn’t understand her, a tattletale classmate, and a scary dog who follows her on the walk home from school, Ramona has a hard time acting like the big girl everyone expects her to be. But when she shows up to school with a missing shoe, Ramona gets a fresh grip on her courage in order to make it through a mortifying situation.

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The Egg Tree | Caldecott Book Unit
$3.00
An engaging resource offering guided reading questions and student journal pages in which 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, Review 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

5 art responses

BONUS: Crossword Puzzle

Level: 560L

I’ve included 2 sets of writing pages to accommodate deferring student levels. One set has dashed lines, the other includes solid lines.

About the story: The Egg Tree was written and illustrated (1951 Caldecott Medal) by Katherine Milhous. The book “The egg tree” tells the history of two children named Katy and Carl, they are going to their grandmothers farm in Red Hills, Pennsylvania, this is the first time the children have the opportunity to spend Easter with their relatives from this part of the country, so they get to meet four of their cousins, the next morning the children wake up early to participate on the Easter egg hunt. Katy seems to have some trouble finding the eggs in this new and unexplored environment, so she decides to explore inside the house, in the attic looking around Katy finds six beautifully painted eggs that she takes to her grandmother immediately, the grandmother express her joy by saying “Katy may not have found the most eggs, but she found the most beautiful eggs”. So then the grandmother decides to decorated a tree with the eggs using them as a kind of ornament, all the kids get inspired because of Katy’s discovery and the grandmother’s joy so they all decided to put special emphasis on their own decoration of the eggs and they decorated a large tree, and the next year one that was even larger.
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Smoky Night | Caldecott Book Unit
$4.50
An engaging resource offering guided reading questions and student activities for Eve Bunting’s book, Smoky Night. (1995 Caldecott Medal award winning book illustrated by David Diaz!) 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 Art work 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

3 art responses

Vocabulary – Word Wall / Flash Cards with definitions provided (Suggested use: Have students match definitions and discuss during group)

Vocabulary Fill-in-the-blank worksheet

2 extended writing prompts with pages to produce student writing.

All writing pages include dashed and solid lines because this has been designed for 1st -3rd grades. You choose what is best for your students’ needs and abilities!

Lexile Measure: 360L
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Black and White | Caldecott Book Unit
$2.00
An engaging resource offering guided reading questions and student activities that will help students get the most from David Macaulay’s book, Black and White (1991 Caldecott Medal winner).

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

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: (2nd-3rd Grade)
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Ralph S. Mouse Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Ralph’s pesky cousins are wrecking his motorcycle, and his janitor friend, Matt, is in trouble because there seem to be mice in the hotel. All in all things are not going well at the Mountain View Inn. So Ralph persuades his young pal Ryan to take him to school. Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan’s classmates. But he doesn’t like being forced to run through a maze or the threat of an exterminator coming to the school. Worst of all, Ryan gets into a fight with a classmate, and Ralph’s precious motorcycle is broken. Is Ralph S. Mouse smart enough to steer this sad situation to a happy ending?

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The Lion and the Mouse | Teaching Aesop’s Fable 2 Ways
$3.00
Fun and engaging way to teach the Aesop’s fable, The Lion and the Mouse! This Language Arts resource will use both the Caldecott’s winning picture book by Jerry Pinkney and the actual fable itself to help students gain understanding of the central theme and develop and practice important skills which will require attention to detail (both with illustration and text evidence). Students will be asked to give character analysis, describe the setting, develop a story map, explain cause and effect, show textual evidence and give opinions.

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Section 1 (to be used with the Caldecott winning picture book) includes:

Guided Reading suggested questions

‘Write the story’ worksheet

‘Think about it’ worksheet

Character Analysis worksheets

Section 2 (to be used with the fable itself) includes:

Student copies of the fable

Character Analysis worksheet

‘Central Message’ worksheet

‘Textual Evidence’ worksheet

‘Story Map’ worksheet

‘Cause and Effect’ worksheet

‘Relating to your own life’ worksheet (self-narrative)

‘Which version did you enjoy most’ worksheet (opinion)

Each writing worksheet offers 2 copies (one with dashed lines and one with single lines). This will allow you to choose which works best for students.
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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Caldecott Book Unit
$4.00
This engaging resource offers guided reading questions, student journal responses and other activities that will help students enjoy and appreciate the book and illustrations of The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses, written and illustrated by Paul Goble (Caldecott winner 1979) . During this unit, students will be asked to give opinions, answer factual questions about the story, use critical thinking skills and be creative!

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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

Worksheets to produce questions both while reading and after reading

3 art responses

Poster of horse and worksheet (label the parts)

Teepee shape book – Suggested uses: Use to create a book report or summary of the story; Use to record and define unfamiliar vocabulary; use to create a poem inspired by the book.

About the story: The story focuses on a young Native American girl who has a deep affinity for wild horses. She cares for the horses that her tribe relies on for the nomadic hunting of buffalo. One day, the herd stampedes due to a thunderstorm, while the girl is among them. She climbs onto the back of one of the horses, and is carried far away from their usual grazing grounds. The next day, the girl awakes to see a beautiful spotted stallion who identifies himself as the leader of all the wild horses, and welcomes her to live with them. Meanwhile, the girl’s tribe searches for her. About one year later, two hunters spot the girl riding with the horses, but she is driven away with the rest of the herd. The hunters return to the tribe with this news, and riders are sent in pursuit. The stallion defends the girl, but she is caught when her horse stumbles. The girl returns home, but is sad to leave the horses. She falls ill with no sign of improvement. The girl asks if she can return, and her parents honor her wish to live among the wild horses again. Each year, she would return to her parents with the gift of a colt. Then one year, she does not return. When the hunters see the wild horses again, they see a mare riding alongside the stallion. They believe this horse to be the girl transformed, which brings the tribe great pride to know they have one of their own riding among them.
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Muggie Maggie Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
A curse on cursive! Maggie doesn’t really mean it when she vows never to read and write those wiggly, squiggly, roller-coaster letters. After all, she uses the computer. But everybody seems to be taking her revolt very, very seriously.

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Chrysanthemum Book Unit
$2.00
An engaging resource offering guided reading questions and student activities that will help students enjoy Kevin Henkes‘s book, Chrysanthemum. (Henkes is a Caldecott winning illustrator.)

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

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: 570L Lexile (2nd Grade)
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Dear Mr. Henshaw Book Unit – Beverly Cleary
$1.50

This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

About the book (Not included):
Newbery Medal Winner * Teachers’ Top 100 Books for Children * ALA Notable Children’s Book
Beverly Cleary’s timeless Newbery Medal-winning book explores difficult topics like divorce, insecurity, and bullying through the thoughts and emotions of a sixth-grade boy as he writes to his favorite author, Boyd Henshaw.

After his parents separate, Leigh Botts moves to a new town with his mother. Struggling to make friends and deal with his anger toward his absent father, Leigh loses himself in a class assignment in which he must write to his favorite author. When Mr. Henshaw responds, the two form an unexpected friendship that will change Leigh’s life forever.

From the beloved author of the Henry Huggins, Ramona Quimby, and Ralph S. Mouse series comes an epistolary novel about how to navigate and heal from life’s growing pains.

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A Ball for Daisy Book Activities
$2.50
Activities to complete after students read the book, A Ball for Daisy. A Ball for Daisy is a Caldecott winning book by Chris Rashcka! Designed for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Grades, it includes activities to spur critical thinking, narrative and opinion writing and art.

Example activities include:

Writing a story for the book in the student’s own words.

Answering the questions: Why do you think there are no words to this story? Would you rather make up the story in your own words or read the words? Explain.

Describing the characters.

A problem-solving question – Find a solution!

Since this has been created for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades, I’ve included 2 copies of each worksheet with differing lines: mid-dashed line and single line pages.
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