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Fun and engaging activities based on the book, The Bad Seed by Jory John. Some of the activities included in this packet are: Text-to-Self Connection, predicting, vocabulary, retelling, sequencing, comprehension questions, describing characters, and opinion writing. Some pages are differentiated to help all types of learners be successful! Similar Product Listed: Reading Response Activities for The Cool Bean by Jory John - Book Companion Reading Response Activities for The Couch Potato by Jory John - Book Companion

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Teamwork really is something that needs to be experienced to be learned, however that doesn’t mean that kids can’t benefit from being taught teamwork in other forms. Discussion, books, example and even movies can be helpful. Below are some of our favorite books that teach different aspects of teamwork. And, bonus, each one would be...Read More »

I love a book about slugs! That's right, slugs. Which is strange because slugs totally freak me out in real life, but not this guy! Every so often, I like to share a picture book that has worked for me in a mini-lesson and is a hit with my 5th grade friends. Today, I want to share with you a little paperback picture book, Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards. This is the story of a cute, YES! CUTE!, little slug that sees a slope he wants to climb. As he climbs the slope, several different critters warn him to stop. He keeps on his path to a very surprising end. I'll tell you more about the end of the book later in this post. Here are some of the ways I have used this book with my friends in the past: Teaching Alliteration This is perhaps the most obvious lesson for this book. Every single page, almost every single word focuses on the alliteration of S. Honestly, the first time I read this book, I was amazed that you could write a cohesive, entertaining story using almost all S words. Here's a sample page: "Slowly the slug started up the steep surface, stringing behind it scribble sparkling like silk." Teaching Variety of Dialog Verbs You would think that a book so focused on the alliteration of S would use said as a dialog verb at least once. Not this book! Some Smug Slug does not use said at all. Instead, there is a great variety of dialog verbs used such as: screamed shrieked sighed snickered squealed It's also a good book for just teaching action verbs. The slug and other animals shift, shudder, sway, swing, slumber, and there are many more S verbs used. Teaching Surprise Endings in Writing Through the entire book, we follow this cute little slug as he finally climbs the slope. Well, that slope turns out to be a salamander that promptly eats the slug! It's an unexpected surprise at the end that gets my friends every time. Now, my 5th graders totally find the humor in the slug being eaten, but I don't know how that would go over with a younger set. You'll have to make that call. The surprise ending is something my friends are always eager to try right away in their writer's notebook. It's a fun technique to use in spooky stories for Halloween. Foreshadowing Now that you know the slug is eaten in the end, you realize that all those animals that were warning the slug to stop knew it was a salamander and not a slope. While you read the book aloud, you can model your thinking aloud, wondering why the animals keep warning the slug. Your friends can make predictions as to why they think the animals would be saying those things to the slug. I promise you when you get to the end of the book, your friends will be all, "That's why the animals were warning him!" It's a nice simple lesson on foreshadowing. This book is also just plain fun. The illustrations, by Henry Cole, are so well done. While they have different illustrators, these remind me of the illustrations in The Great Kapok Tree. Also, there is a hidden S in every picture. To be honest, I never remember where they are and I never find them all when I search, but my friends are able to find them all every time. In case you want to preview the book, I found a video on YouTube that I embedded below. It's a reading of the book that shows each page, so you can take a look and decide if it's good for you. I should mention that I ran to Barnes & Nobel to pick up another copy of this book on Sunday. As I paid for the book, the clerk said sarcastically, "A book about slugs? Nice." If only she knew just how nice! (By the way, did you catch it? "said sarcastically" This S alliteration thing is catchy! I know, I'm a total cornball sometimes!) The reason I purchased another copy is that I am going to include it as one of the prizes in my little thank you give-away, which I will be posting about on Wednesday. So, come back on Wednesday to enter the give-away and possibly win a copy of Some Smug Slug for yourself! *By the way, this is just me sharing an opinion of a book I like. Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole, and the publishers of Some Smug Slug don't even know I exist or that I can read! ;-)

As teachers, we know that teamwork, community, and cooperation are essential values that we want our students to learn. One way to reinforce these concepts is by sharing books that highlight the importance of working together towards a common goal. By sharing these books with our students, we can help them understand the value of teamwork and cooperation in their everyday lives.

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Wild Thing Book Activities! This unit is fantastic for Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are. Writing worksheet and craft included. Perfect for kindergarten or first grade!

Canada was built the fur trade and the collaboration of peoples that lived here. That's what Trappers and Traders: A Fur Trade Game is all about.

Happy Tuesday, friends! :) I am quickly becoming obsessed with falling in love with my weekly feature! I went through my books at school the other day to scan through all that I had for this week's post. However, I became very over whelmed with all of the books and post ideas that popped in my head. Needless to say, I don't think I will ever run out of ideas for this feature...WOOHOO!! With that being said, I'm really excited to introduce you to my second favorite children's author, Kevin Henkes. His precious little books are great reads for all ages and the under lying themes of each book are perfect conversation starters about real kid issues. I use Kevin's books all throughout the school year for many different skills. My top three favorites are: 1) Chrysanthemum 2) Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 3) Shelia Rae, the Brave Click on the picture above to purchase this book from Amazon! This week, I'm gonna tell you all about sweet little Shelia Rae. TITLE: Shelia Rae, the Brave AUTHOR: Kevin Henkes GENRE: Fiction SKILLS THAT COULD BE TAUGHT USING THIS BOOK: Theme, Asking Questions, Making Connections, Point of View (Perspective) In lots of ways, we have a little Shelia Rae in all us. Many times, we like to act brave, like we got it all together, until we are caught off guard. (Anyone ever experienced anything like this....say, the first day of school?!?! haha) Shelia Rae is that child that is never scared of anything and wants everyone to know how brave and risky she really is. However, one day Shelia Rae gets caught off caught and has a moment where her bravery is almost nonexistent for a while. This book is a precious book to talk about how it's okay not to always be brave, and learning to depend on others when you feel scared and don't know what to do. Yesterday was my first day back with my little darlins' for the school year, and right after our Morning Meeting, I read them this book. We created an anchor chart and talked about Shelia Rae and her feelings and what it really meant to be brave. We talked about how they (as in the students) felt like they had to be brave coming into third grade (which for our kiddos is a HUGE step because they come from a K-2 school that feeds into our school, a total different building with 3-5 kids). We talked about what it means to be a good friend when a friend of ours isn't always so brave, how to help each other, and what it means to be brave for the other person. I told the kids how I was nervous about the first day of school and how my teaching partners helped me to be brave because we leaned on each other for support. After our looooooooooong conversation and completing our anchor chart, the kids went back to their desks and worked on the graphic organizer below while the rest of the class took turns turning in their school supplies. You can click on the picture to download a FREE copy of this graphic organizer from Google Documents. Click on the picture to download your free copy of the activity to go along with the story! I hope you enjoy this sweet little book with your kiddos as much as I do. And don't forget, if you ever start to feel nervous and not so brave anymore, lean on a friend (or go eat a piece of chocolate...that works too!). Until then,

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These 12 books are perfect to read to our littlest learners when trying to highlight the skill of alliteration!

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