Details
Pages
37 Pages
Subject
Reading & Literacy, Reading Comprehension & Learning
Languages
English
Product
Digital
Grade
2nd, 3rd, 4th
Resource Type
Activities, Organizers, Printables
Standard
Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Description
This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Roller Coaster, by Maria Frazee.
With 32 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.
⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️
◾ Making Predictions: Students will 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.
◾ Comic Recall: Students will draw three scenes from the story, complete with speech bubbles, to tell the story's beginning, middle, and end with text and illustrations.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Character Traits: Students choose 2 character traits that describe the character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Feelings: 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: 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 Perspective: Students will describe how they think the character feels about riding the roller coaster based on their facial expressions in the pictures.
◾ 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.
◾ Before & After: Students draw a picture and describe how the girl felt before riding the roller coaster and how she felt after riding it.
◾ Notice & Note: Students will notice and take notes on the important details the author includes in the text & illustrations.
◾ Sensory Details: Students use all five senses to describe the experience of riding a roller coaster.
◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
◾ 3-2-1: Students will identify three feelings or emotions that people might experience before, during, or after riding a roller coaster, describe two things they notice about the people as they get off the roller coaster, and choose one word that best describes riding a roller coaster and explain why.
◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then answer the questions about the author's message.
◾ 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.
◾ Ride the Roller Coaster: Students design a flyer to persuade people to experience the thrill of the roller coaster at the amusement park.
◾ Dear Diary: Students will imagine themselves as a character from the story and write a diary entry about a key event.
◾ Trying Something New: Students make connections to the story by answering questions about a time they tried 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.
◾ Onomatopoeia ABCs: Students create a list of onomatopoeias to use in their own writing.
This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.
With 32 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.
⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️
◾ Making Predictions: Students will 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.
◾ Comic Recall: Students will draw three scenes from the story, complete with speech bubbles, to tell the story's beginning, middle, and end with text and illustrations.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Character Traits: Students choose 2 character traits that describe the character and provide examples from the book to support each trait.
◾ Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Feelings: 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: 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 Perspective: Students will describe how they think the character feels about riding the roller coaster based on their facial expressions in the pictures.
◾ 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.
◾ Before & After: Students draw a picture and describe how the girl felt before riding the roller coaster and how she felt after riding it.
◾ Notice & Note: Students will notice and take notes on the important details the author includes in the text & illustrations.
◾ Sensory Details: Students use all five senses to describe the experience of riding a roller coaster.
◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.
◾ 3-2-1: Students will identify three feelings or emotions that people might experience before, during, or after riding a roller coaster, describe two things they notice about the people as they get off the roller coaster, and choose one word that best describes riding a roller coaster and explain why.
◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then answer the questions about the author's message.
◾ 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.
◾ Ride the Roller Coaster: Students design a flyer to persuade people to experience the thrill of the roller coaster at the amusement park.
◾ Dear Diary: Students will imagine themselves as a character from the story and write a diary entry about a key event.
◾ Trying Something New: Students make connections to the story by answering questions about a time they tried 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.
◾ Onomatopoeia ABCs: Students create a list of onomatopoeias to use in their own writing.
This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.
This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Roller Coaster, by Maria Frazee. With 32 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities.... more
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