Benno and the Night of Broken Glass Read-Aloud Activities and Book Companion

Item description

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, by Meg Wiviott.

With 44 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 characters, compare and contrast, make predictions, inferences, and connections, answer questions that require them to think within and beyond the text, and so 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.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• Judging by the Cover: Before reading the novel, students will examine the cover of the book and answer the related questions.
• Making Predictions: Students will make predictions about the text before reading the book.
• Sequencing: Students retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.
• Recalling events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.
• Comic Recall: Students will draw three scenes from the story, complete with speech bubbles, to tell the story’s beginning, middle, and end with text and illustrations.
• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
• Story Plot: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Minor Problems & Solutions: Students identify four minor problems and solutions in the story (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Cause & Effect: Students identify four cause & effect examples in the story (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Making Connections: Students make connections to events from the story.
• Using Details to Make Inferences: Students read the details from the text and answer the guiding questions to make inferences (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
• Notice & Note: Students document a key inference, identify a cause-and-effect example, and pinpoint a specific part where the author uses descriptive language to vividly portray ideas.
• 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 Traits: Students choose 2 character traits that describe the character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
• Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
• Character Development (Benno; Neighbors & Shopkeepers): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support those traits.
• Character Change (Benno; Neighbors & Shopkeepers): Students explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change.
• Overcoming Obstacles T-Chart: Students list the physical, emotional, or mental obstacles the character faced and describe how they responded to those challenges.
• Character Summary: Students summarize a character focusing on challenges, responses, flaws, positive characteristics, and a timeline of 5 events showcasing behavior.
• Character Analysis: Students choose four traits for the main character, provide text evidence, describe development, and state opinions on impactful events.
• Acrostic Poem: Students write an acrostic poem to describe the main character.
• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students draw a scene from the story and describe what happened there and why it was important to the plot.
• Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.
• Thinking About the Text: Students respond to the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students respond to the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Compare & Contrast: Students compare and contrast the behaviors of the different families Benno interacts with before and after the night of broken glass.
• Symbolism: Students analyze and identify various symbols and the use of symbolism in the book (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• 3-2-1: Students respond to the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• 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.
• Mapping Change & Impact: Students will mark the locations where Benno observed significant changes on a map. They will briefly describe each change, explain its effect on Benno, and identify the type of change.
• Mapping Change & Impact Reflection: Students answer reflection questions after completing the map activity.
• Prep for a Podcast: Students write 3 interview questions Benno and his possible responses about his experiences in the story. Then, partner with a classmate to act out the interview.
• Memorable Moments: Students draw pictures and add captions to highlight the story’s most important or memorable parts.
• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Word Search Puzzle: Students find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Wait… There’s More!: Students write about what happens next in the story.
• Design a Book Cover: Students design a new cover for the book and write a paragraph explaining why they chose the colors and pictures they did and what they symbolize.
• 4-Literary Essay Prompts: Students will write an essay analyzing themes, characters, and events from the story, supported by textual evidence (INCLUDES WRITING RUBRIC).