Save yourself time and engage your students with these Picture Day Perfection activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go! Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen. TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU! 1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions. 2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for each. 3. We wrote 30 book-based writing prompts (that cover 10 genres of writing). 4. We identified an SEL focus / character education topic based on events in the story. 5. We constructed strategy-based reading comprehension questions and created no-prep, print-and-go reader response worksheets. YOU ONLY NEED TO DO 3 QUICK & EASY STEPS: STEP 1: PLAN Simply customize your Picture Day Perfection lesson plans using the ideas in the teaching guide and choose from the 15 standards-based activities. STEP 2: PREP Prep can be as simple as printing the activity pages (or assigning the included digital version) and finding a free video of the book being read aloud online. OPTIONAL: If you want to dive deeper into a book study, you’ll find our teaching ideas and slides make it easy to create mini-lessons, anchor charts, and slideshows. STEP 3: TEACH Engage your students with an interactive read aloud by reading or streaming the picture book. Practice reading comprehension strategies with text-based discussion questions. We even wrote the Picture Day Perfection comprehension questions for you! Some teachers like to assemble and assign independent work packets. Others prefer to dive deeper into the story with vocabulary, grammar, SEL, and writing lessons that can span over several days. The best thing about our 500+ book companions is the flexibility they provide you. We’ve packed them with a variety of teaching ideas and activities so you have the option to use them in the way that works best for you and your students! We have over 500 picture book companions to choose from? ➔ ➔ SEE THEM ALL HERE THE PICTURE DAY PERFECTION BOOK COMPANION FOCUSES ON: ◼️READING STRATEGIES ☐ making predictions ☐ analyzing character ☐ making connections ☐ plot | problem - solution ☐ ask and answer questions ☐ figurative language ◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ problem solving ☐ self esteem ☐ making good choices ◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ prefixes ☐ suffixes ☐ contractions ☐ verb tense PICTURE DAY PERFECTION SUMMARY Picture Day Perfection by Deborah Diesen is the story about a young boy trying to get the perfect school picture. He has been planning it for months! Unfortunately, he runs into several mishaps on picture day. These include getting covered in syrup, making a mess with paint, and having the wrong backdrop. In the end, the boy did not get his perfect picture, he was smiling! His mom thought it was the perfect picture, but next year the boy plans to get it right. Students will enjoy this hilarious story about school picture day. They will laugh at the boy’s mishaps and the funny pictures throughout. HOW THIS RESOURCE SAVES YOU TIME and IMPROVES STUDENT LEARNING: ♥ The comprehension questions are grouped by reading strategies for easy lesson planning. ♥ It is standards-based and covers all aspects of language arts instruction. ♥ The activities were designed to be open-ended for easy differentiation and modification. THE BOOK COMPANION PACKET CAN BE USED FOR: → sub plans → reader's workshop → guided reading → small group instruction → independent work → literacy centers → informal assessment → writer's workshop → RTI → word study → guidance lessons for social emotional learning → for remote learning, distance learning, or paperless work in the classroom INCLUDED READ ALOUD LESSON IDEAS & PICTURE BOOK ACTIVITIES: ➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent ➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story ➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions ➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text ➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing ➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space ➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution ➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book ➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting ➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration ➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wide-ruled versions ➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally ➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram ➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another ➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence ➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections ➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board ➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End ➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping ➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence ➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing: narrative persuasive / opinion descriptive expository / informative creative / story writing procedure / how-to list making letter / postcard writing poem book reviews INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES: ➜ 5 Teaching Slides with clipart from the story to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc) ➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables The 20 slides above can be exported to be used with PowerPoint, Seesaw™️, or another platform. 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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS FIRST GRADE CCSS READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.1.1 CCSS.RL.1.2 CCSS.RL.1.3 CCSS.RL.1.4 CCSS.RL.1.7 CCSS.RL.1.9 READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: CCSS.RF.1.1 CCSS.RF.1.1a WRITING: CCSS.W.1.1 CCSS.W.1.2 CCSS.W.1.3 CCSS.W.1.5  LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.1.1 CCSS.L.1.1a CCSS.L.1.1b CCSS.L.1.1c CCSS.L.1.1eCCSS.L.1.1f CCSS.L.1.1h CCSS.L.1.2a CCSS.L.1.2b CCSS.L.1.2d CCSS.L.1.2e CCSS.L.1.5c CCSS.L.1.6      SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.SL.1.1 CCSS.SL.1.1a CCSS.SL.1.1b CCSS.SL.1.1c CCSS.SL.1.2 SECOND GRADE CCSS READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.2.1 CCSS.RL.2.2 CCSS.RL.2.3 CCSS.RL.2.5 CCSS.RL.2.6 CCSS.RL.2.7 CCSS.RL.2.9 READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: RF.2.3 RF.2.4.c WRITING: CCSS.W.2.1 CCSS.W.2.2 CCSS.W.2.3 CCSS.W.2.5 LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.2.1 CCSS.L.2.1e CCSS.L.2.3 CCSS.L.2.4a CCSS.L.2.6      SPEAKING & LISTENING: CCSS.SL.2.1 CCSS.SL.2.1a CCSS.SL.2.1b CCSS.SL.2.1c CCSS.SL.2.2 CCSS.SL.2.3      THIRD GRADE CCSS READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.3.1 CCSS.RL.3.2 CCSS.RL.3.3 CCSS.RL.3.4 CCSS.RL.3.5 CCSS.RL.3.6 CCSS.RL.3.7 CCSS.RL.3.9 READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: RF.2.3 RF.2.4c WRITING: CCSS.W.3.1 CCSS.W.3.2 CCSS.W.3.3 CCSS.W.3.4 CCSS.W.3.5 CCSS.W.3.10 CCSS.W.3.1a CCSS.W.3.1b CCSS.W.3.1c CCSS.W.3.1d CCSS.W.3.2a CCSS.W.3.2b CCSS.W.3.2c CCSS.W.3.2d CCSS.W.3.3a CCSS.W.3.3b CCSS.W.3.3c CCSS.W.3.3d LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.3.1    SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.SL.3.2 CCSS.SL.3.3 CCSS.SL.3.4  CCSS ANCHOR STANDARDS (ALL GRADES) LANGUAGE: CCSS.CCRA.L.1 CCSS.CCRA.L.2      READING: CCSS.CCRA.R.1 CCSS.CCRA.R.2 CCSS.CCRA.R.3 CCSS.CCRA.R.4 CCSS.CCRA.R.9      SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.CCRA.SL.1 CCSS.CCRA.SL.4   ANCHOR STANDARDS FOR WRITING: CCSS.CCRA.W.1 CCSS.CCRA.W.2 CCSS.CCRA.W.3 CCSS.CCRA.W.4 CCSS.CCRA.W.5 CCSS.CCRA.W.10   TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE SKILLS FIRST GRADE TEKS DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.1.1.C TEKS.1.1.D TEKS.1.1.A TEKS.1.12.C.iii TEKS.1.12.C.iv TEKS.1.13.B AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS.1.10.A TEKS.1.10.B -EKS.1.10.C TEKS.1.10.D COMPOSITION: TEKS1.11.A TEKS.1.11.B.i TEKS.1.11.B.ii TEKS.1.11.D.ix TEKS.1.11.x TEKS.1.11.E TEKS.1.12.A TEKS.1.12.B TEKS.1.12.C COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.1.6.B TEKS.1.6.C TEKS.1.6.D TEKS.1.6.E TEKS.1.6.F RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS1.7.A TEKS1.7.B TEKS1.7.C TEKS1.7.D TEKS1.7.E TEKS1.7.F MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS1.8.A TEKS1.8.B TEKS1.8.C TEKS1.8.D SECOND GRADE TEKS DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.2.1.A TEKS.2.1.C - TEKS.2.1.D TEKS.2.1.E TEKS.2.3.B AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS2.10.A TEKS2.10.B TEKS2.10.C COMPOSITION: TEKS.2.11.A TEKS.2.11.D.xi TEKS.2.11.E TEKS.2.12.A TEKS.2.12.BTEKS.2.12.C COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.2.6.B TEKS.2.6.C TEKS.2.6.D TEKS.2.6.E TEKS.2.6.F TEKS.2.6.G TEKS.2.6.H RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS.2.7.A TEKS.2.7.C TEKS.2.7.D TEKS.2.7.E TEKS.2.7.F MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS.2.8.B TEKS.2.8.C TEKS.2.8.D THIRD GRADE TEKS DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.3 .1.A TEKS.3.1.C TEKS.3.1.D TEKS.3.1.E TEKS.3.3.B AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS3.10.A TEKS3.10.B TEKS3.10.C COMPOSITION: TEKS.3.11.A TEKS.3.11.D.xi TEKS.3.11.E TEKS.3.12.A TEKS.3.12.B TEKS.3.12.C COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.3.6.B TEKS.3.6.C TEKS.3.6.D TEKS.3.6.E TEKS.3.6.F TEKS.3.6.G TEKS.3.6.H RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS.3.7.ATEKS.3.7.C TEKS.3.7.D TEKS.3.7.E TEKS.3.7.F MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS.3.8.B TEKS.