A Storm Called Katrina Book Companion Activities

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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book A Storm Called Katrina, by Myron Uhlberg. It’s the perfect read-aloud to teach and discuss family, community, character traits, character change, survival, hurricanes, and more!

With 24 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, practice plotting story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

Click HERE to save 20% by buying the BUNDLE which includes the following resources:

• Zane and the Hurricane Reader Response Questions
• Zane and the Hurricane Vocabulary Study
• Zane and the Hurricane Figurative Language Study
• Zane and the Hurricane Quiz BUNDLE
• Zane and the Hurricane Essay Questions
• Zane and the Hurricane Theme Study
• Zane and the Hurricane S.T.E.A.M. Based Activities
• BONUS FILE – “A Storm Called Katrina” – Picture Book Read Aloud – Questions & Activities

This resource includes:

• Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.
• Reader Response Questions: Students respond to open-ended and short-answer questions (ANSWER KEY included).
• Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.
• Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.
• Story Plot: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.
• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.
• Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
• Character Feelings: Students describe how the character’s feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.
• Character Change: Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused this change to happen.
• Character Summary: Students summarize the main character of the story.
• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
• Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.
• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and explain why it’s important to the plot.
• Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings and write about what happened there and why it was important to the plot.
• Sensory Language Chart: Students fill in the chart with examples from the text where the author used sensory language.
• Text-to-Text Connections: Students will make connections to another book they read and A Storm Called Katrina.
• Text-to-Text Connections: Students will make connections using the books, A Storm Called Katrina, and Zane and the Hurricane.
• Plot Diagram Graphic Organizers: A variety of graphic organizers for plot are included in order to differentiate for your students.
• 24 – Task Cards: The task cards contain the same questions as the reader response pages. Students can utilize the task cards in addition to or in place of the written response sheets. Response sheets for the task cards are also included. Students can collaborate and discuss the questions in groups, then collectively write their answers on response forms to submit as group work.

This resource is for extension read–aloud activities only (the book is not included and will need to be purchased separately).