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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin.
With 47 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, determine the theme, 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.
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This Resource Includes:
- Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students will make predictions about the text.
- Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words and pictures to represent the story elements.
- Problem & Solution: Students identify the problem & solution in the story.
- Sequencing: Students will sequence the events of the story with text and illustrations.
- Timeline of Events: Students will cut and paste the “Timeline Sequencing Cards” in the correct order onto the timeline (ANSWER KEY included).
- Cause & Effect (simplified): Students are given either the cause or effect and will cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).
- Cause & Effect: Students cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).
- Study the Setting: Students will look for details in the text and illustrations that help them have a better understanding of the setting (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.
- Summarizing Main Events: Students fill in the missing main ideas and supporting details and use the information to respond to the summary prompts (ANSWER KEY included).
- Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
- Plot Map: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer.
- Story Plot: Students organize the events of the story on the graphic organizer (has an explanation for the elements of the plot).
- Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
- Character Traits #1: Students choose two important character traits that describe the main character and provide evidence from the text to support their choices.
- Character Traits #2: Students choose 2 different (positive/negative) character traits that describe the main character and provide examples from the text to support the traits they chose.
- Character Development: Students choose character traits to describe how the character changed throughout the story and support their thinking with evidence from the text.
- Character Change: 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 Summary: Students summarize the main character of the story.
- Character Perspective: Students will compare Snowflake Bentley’s perspective to the perspectives of either his friends, neighbors, or parents drawing a picture and adding text in the thought bubbles.
- Making Connections: Students make connections to events in the story.
- Making Inferences: Students use clues and schema to come up with two inferences they make 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.
- Visualizing: Students will read the sentences from the story and use the author’s descriptive language to illustrate what they visualize.
- Sensory Details: Students choose an event from the story and describe it from the character’s perspective using all five senses.
- Winter Imagery: Students describe the winter season using 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 answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions to respond to the text (ANSWER KEY included).
- 4-Writing Prompts: Students will respond to the writing prompts and provide evidence from the text to support their thinking.
- 3-Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles: Students will complete a crossword puzzle by matching words from the story to their definitions (ANSWER KEYS included).
- 2-Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles: Students will find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEYS included).
- Haiku Poem Planning Sheet: Students will choose a topic or object that relates to winter in some way, brainstorm ideas using the five senses, and list adjectives to describe the topic or object.
- Haiku Poem Template: Students will write and illustrate their Haiku poem.
- Artist Study: Students will research further into the life of Wilson Bentley to learn more about his life and photography.
- Snowflake ABCs: Students choose words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to describe snowflakes.
- Wait… There’s More!: Students will create an alternate ending to the story.
- 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.
- 24-Vocabulary Matching Cards (color pages and B&W): This activity can be used during stations or posted on a word wall to reinforce vocabulary words from the story.
This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.
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