Courage by Bernard Waber Interactive Read-Aloud Activities and Book Companion

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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Courage, by Bernard Waber.

With 21 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 identify story elements, determine the theme, analyze metaphors, compare and contrast, make predictions, inferences, and connections, answer questions that require them to think within and beyond the text, and so much more!

⭐️Click HERE to save over 20% by buying the BUNDLE, which includes IRA supplemental activities for the following picture books in the Fountas and Pinnell Text Set, Facing Challenges:

• Courage, by Bernard Waber
• Roller Coaster, by Maria Frazee
• Mirette on the High Wire, by Emily Arnold McCully
• Suki’s Kimono, by Chieri Uegaki
• Abuela’s Weave, Omar S. Casteneda

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.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• Making Predictions: Students make predictions about the text before reading the book.
• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.
• Making Inferences: Students make inferences while reading the story.
• Making Sense of Metaphors: Students Identify what two things are being compared in each metaphor, and explain why the author chose to compare those two things.
• Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
• Everyday Courage vs. Amazing Courage: Students will decide if the examples of courage in the story are something that happens every day or something really amazing and think of their own example for each kind of courage.
• Courage Is: Students explain why the author thinks courage is similar to each experience.
• Notice & Note: Students will notice and take notes on the important details the author includes in the text & illustrations.
• Discovering Courage through the Five Senses: Students use the five senses to describe courage.
• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
• 3-2-1: Students give three examples of having courage, describe two ways that they show courage, and choose one word that best describes courage and explain why.
• Author’s Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then answer the questions about the author’s message.
• Courageous ABCs: Students will write something that requires courage for each letter of the alphabet.
• Courage Caught on Social Media: Students create a social media post sharing an example of courage.
• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues to complete the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.
• New Book Pages: Students will think of different ways people show courage in everyday life and in unusual situations. Then, write a sentence about each one and draw a picture to go with their writing.
• Having Courage: Students write about a time they showed courage.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.

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