Item description
Engage your young readers and expand your students reading comprehension skills during story book read alouds with this interactive read aloud kit that provides hands-on sequencing, retelling, and more.
Featuring A Book for Escargot by: Dashka Slater – the sequel to Escargot–written by award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Dashka Slater and illustrated by Sydney Hanson–we follow a funny and charming French snail through a library to find the book of his dreams.
After your students have completed the lesson in this kit there is a meaningful and fun hands-on sequencing craftivity.
Included in this resource is an optional lesson outline featuring
5 days of lesson planning:
Day 1: Pre-Lesson:
- vocabulary
- making predictions
- activate prior knowledge
Day 2: Story Elements
- anchor chart
- BME
- verbal RETELL, whole group pocket chart story map
- sequencing craft
Day 3: Character Traits (inside and outside)
- character analysis
- venn diagram
Day 4: Making Connections
- connections to text
- inferences
- visualizations
- problem / solution
- cause / effect
Day 5: Authors Purpose
What’s Inside?
- 5 day lesson plan outline
- general comprehension questions
- visual supports (5 finger retell, story retell chart, BME, character traits (inside and out), authors purpose, making connections, theme, and questions a reader should ask as they read.)
- vocabulary cards – 4 words from the text with pictures and child friendly definitions
- vocabulary worksheets (differentiated)
- printable anchor chart
- pocket chart story map
- mini story map poster
- pocket chart retell
- student worksheets: mapping, BME, character traits, connections, and analysis, cause and effect, problem/ solution, visualizing, inferences, venn diagram, main idea, author’s message and purpose, and theme.
- sequencing craft
- optional writing pages with sentence starters
- *some resources include a bonus: become the illustrator guided drawing.
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