Starting the year off right means starting with the best literature. This Back to School Book Companions bundle includes SIX of my favorite titles including Each Kindness, Thank You Mr. Falker, Junkyard Wonders, The Bad Seed, The Cool Bean, and A Bad Case of Stripes. The first four titles include both digital and pdf while The Cool Bean and A Bad Case of Stripes are boom card activities.
246 pages-1/2 PDF (4 books) and 1/2 Digital (Google Slides TM and Boom Cards)
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Starting the year off right means starting with the best literature. This Back to School Book Companions bundle includes SIX of my favorite titles including Each Kindness, Thank You Mr. Falker, Junkyard Wonders, The Bad Seed, The Cool Bean, and A Bad Case of Stripes. The first four titles include both digital and pdf while The Cool Bean and A Bad Case of Stripes are boom card activities.
During the first week of school, every classroom works to build community and establish group norms. These titles teach empathy, accepting others, building friendships, establishing rules and class norms, and much more. Each title includes before, during, and after activities for vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. You’ll find a few projects included too.
Activity Set 1: Book Companion for Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson
Use before, during, after activities to highlight the important themes in this book. Skills include vocabulary, inside/outside character traits, story impressions and inferences, theme vs. main idea, questioning, and text evidence. 10 pages including task cards and response page.
Activity Set 2: Acts of Kindness Lapbook Project:
Help your students define kindness, think of ways kindness is shown around them, come up with ideas for Random Acts of Kindness, identify kindness in others, and plan for a peaceful future with this print and go lapbook.
Activity Set 3: Welcome to Our Classroom Book
Each child writes about what makes him/her special and unique and shares tips for new students to help them with school and classroom routines, unique things about the class, and such.
Activity Set 4: Digital unit using Google Slides TM
Everything in the first three sets has been put in color for use on your smartboard or one to one devices. Students can create on the computer and share all files with you electronically for a paperless experience.
Each digital task card has full audio support. Teachers can project them for group discussion or assign to students. Students respond (drag and drop activities) to comprehension questions, sequence the events of the story (2), identify the story elements, sort cause and effect events, and write about extended response questions. This resource is best used AFTER reading or listening to the story.
Each digital task card has full audio support. Students respond (drag and drop activities) to comprehension questions, sequence the events of the story (2), identify the story elements, sort cause and effect events, and extended responses. This resource is best used AFTER reading or listening to the story too.
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Sparking Secondary says, “I actually used parts of the packet when we used Each Kindness during a literature study on Jacqueline Woodson in my 8th grade ELA class. We were also having some issues with the kids not being kind, so it helped there as well. I knew it was for younger kids, but it actually was an engaging activity for them and we had some excellent discussions. ”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธAbsolutely LOVE this! Thank you for making this so thorough with not only comprehension but applying the book to their own lives!
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Stranded Goose says, “I love the variety of activities in this product. I was easily able to separate it into a skill focused days to fit my students’ needs. ”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Mary Russell says, “This a great resource for using this book and provides different comprehension strategies as well as higher order thinking skills! ”
โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ Annette H. says, “I sent this to my on-line students during a week I wasn’t going to be seeing them Two of my students are on the autistic spectrum. They loved the story and the work they were able to do relating to the story. They could easily navigate the work!! ”
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