Tidy by Emily Gravett Craft + Read Aloud Activities | RETELL | Perfect for Earth Day

Item description

This Interactive Read Aloud RETELL Kit is designed to provide a rich and engaging reading experience for your young readers.

Featuring: Tidy by Emily Gravett ” a very funny rhyming woodland story about the perils of being too tidy. Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy at all times, but what starts as the collecting of one fallen leaf escalates and ends with the complete destruction of the forest!”

Themes:

• learning from mistakes
• Earth and the environment

Each kit includes A 5-DAY LESSON PLAN with challenging (text-dependent) worksheets that are differentiated to meet students learning needs.

This read aloud will not only help students meet various core standards, but students will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the story and develop their analytical skills all while ensuring that they are fully engaged with the text! To round out your lesson plan students will complete a meaningful, fun, hands-on sequencing craftivity.

Included in this resource is an optional lesson outline featuring

5 days of lesson planning:

Day 1: Pre-Lesson:

• vocabulary
• making predictions
• activate prior knowledge

Day 2: Story Elements

• anchor chart
• BME
• verbal RETELL, whole group pocket chart story map
• sequencing craft

Day 3: Character Traits (inside and outside)

• character analysis
• venn diagram

Day 4: Making Connections

• connections to text
• inferences
• visualizations
• problem / solution
• cause / effect

Day 5: Authors Purpose

• theme
• message

What’s Inside?

• 5 day lesson plan outline
• general comprehension questions
• visual supports (5 finger retell, story retell chart, BME, character traits (inside and out), authors purpose, making connections, theme, and questions a reader should ask as they read.)
• vocabulary cards – 4 words from the text with pictures and child friendly definitions
• vocabulary worksheets (differentiated)
• printable anchor chart
• pocket chart story map
• mini story map poster
• pocket chart retell
• student worksheets: mapping, BME, character traits, connections, and analysis, cause and effect, problem/ solution, visualizing, inferences, venn diagram, main idea, author’s message and purpose, and theme.
• sequencing craft
• optional writing pages with sentence starters
• *some resources include a bonus: become the illustrator guided drawing.

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