This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Mirette on the High Wire, by Emily Arnold McCully.

With 34 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.

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◾ Making Predictions: Students make predictions about the text before reading the book.
◾ Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.
◾ Sequencing: Students will 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.
◾ Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.
◾ Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to events from the story.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Character Traits (Mirette): Students choose 2 character traits that describe the character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Traits (Mirette & Bellini): Students choose 2 character traits that describe each character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Mirette): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Bellini): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Feelings (Mirette): 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 Feelings (Bellini): 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 Development (Mirette): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.
◾ Character Development (Bellini): Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.
◾ Character Change (Bellini): Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.
◾ Overcoming Obstacles: Students will choose two challenges Mirette and Bellini faced in the story, describe their responses, and identify the character traits that developed as a result.
◾ Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will 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.
◾ Figuring Out Figurative Language: Students read the phrases from the story and identify what two things are being compared. Then, they explain what it means and why the author included it in the story (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
◾ Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
◾ Thinking Beyond the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.
◾ Dear Diary: Students will imagine themselves as a character from the story and write a diary entry about a key event.
◾ Dear Mirette and Bellini: Students will imagine they're the little girl at the end of the story and write a letter to Mirette and Bellini explaining how their poster inspired them to overcome a fear.
◾ Showing Off on Social Media: Students imagine they are a character in the story and create a social media post sharing one event, including a caption, name, location, likes, and a hashtag.
◾ Prep for a Podcast: Students will prepare for an interview with Mirette and Bellini for a podcast about their upcoming show by writing 3 questions and answers for each character.
◾ Learning Something New: Students make connections to the story by answering questions about a time they learned something new.
◾ Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
◾ Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to find the hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
◾ Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.
◾ Book Review: Students rate and review the book.
◾ Marie Spelterini: Brave Tightrope Walker (Reading Passage): Students will read the passage and answer the questions (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

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