Ella Fitzgerald Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat Book Companion Activities | Black History

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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for Roxane Orgill’s book, Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald.

With 43 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic ability.

Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, conduct research, identify and find the meaning of figurative language, practice plotting story events, analyze characters, make predictions & connections, respond to questions related to the story, and much more!

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It’s the ideal interactive read-aloud for educating students about the singer Ella Fitzgerald, resilience, passion, dedication, overcoming obstacles, hope, jazz music, the Harlem Renaissance, and so much more! It’s a great addition to units on black history, women in history, the Harlem Renaissance, jazz music, influential people in history, or biographies. 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, to encourage students to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and to challenge students to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions – Before reading the book, students will examine the front cover and describe what they see, make predictions about what the book is about, and the questions they think the book might answer.
• Story Elements – Students fill in the boxes with words and pictures to represent the story elements.
• Summarizing – Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
• Cause & Effect – 4 differentiated versions are included. (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
• Setting Influences the Plot – Students will answer the questions about the setting of the story to gain a better understanding of how a story’s setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.
• Story Plot – Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.
• Timeline of Events – Students will cut and paste the “Timeline Sequencing Cards” in the correct order onto the timeline (ANSWER KEY included).
• Character Inside & Out – Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
• Character Traits – 3 differentiated versions are included for this activity. Students will choose important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices.
• Overcoming Obstacles – Students will fill in the T-Chart with physical, emotional, or mental obstacles the character faced and describe their response to those challenges.
• Character Change – Students choose character traits to describe how the character changed throughout the story and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
• Character Development – Students describe how the character changed and developed throughout the story, state their opinion regarding which event impacted the character the most, and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
• Character Perspective – Students will compare character perspectives in the story by drawing a picture and adding words to the thought bubbles.
• Making Connections – Students make connections to an event from the story.
• Making Inferences – Students use clues and schema to come up with two inferences they made from the text.
• Theme #1 – Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
• Theme #2 – Students answer the questions to determine the theme of the story and provide text evidence.
• Thematic Statements – Students choose the thematic statement that they believe best fits the story and include evidence from the text to support their choice.
• Sensory Details – Students choose an event from the story and describe it with the five senses.
• Figurative Language – Students will read the text taken from the story, circle the type of figurative language used, determine what is being compared, state the meaning, and answer the extension questions (ANSWER KEY included).
• Reader Response Questions – Students will respond to short-answer questions (ANSWER KEY included).
• The Perfect Playlist – Students will design a soundtrack for the story, which includes creating a playlist of FOUR songs that represent four BIG IDEAS consistently seen throughout the book and designing an album cover that symbolizes the theme of the story.
• Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle – Students will complete a crossword puzzle by matching words from the story to their definitions (ANSWER KEY included).
• Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle – Students will find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).
• 7-Writing Prompts – Students will respond to the writing prompts and provide evidence from the text to support their thinking when needed.
• Quote Analysis – Students read the provided quote and give thoughtful responses to the questions using the story, personal experiences, background knowledge, as well as opinions to guide their responses.
• Biography – Students will research further into the life of Ella Fitzgerald.
• Who Was Ella Fitzgerald? – Students research to learn more about Ella Fitzgerald and complete a biography one-pager.
• Music Appreciation – Students will listen to Ella Fitzgerald’s song “A Tisket, A Tasket and reflect on what they imagined as they heard the music, how it made them feel, and what it reminds them of.
• Book Review – Students rate how much they enjoyed the book, draw a new cover, and explain why kids should or should not read it.
• Design a Book Cover – Students design a new cover for the book.
• Musical Art Teacher Guide – Students create a visual to represent important plot events, emotions, and themes in the story (includes a color symbolism wheel and large & small musical notes).

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

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