This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Our Big Home: An Earth Poem by Linda Glaser With 26 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 imagery and figurative language, investigate how Earth's resources are shared among all living things, make inferences and connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, identify and gain information using text and graphic features, answer questions that require them to think 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: Before reading, students will make predictions about the book. ◾ KWL graphic organizer: Before reading about the special things we share on Earth, students will fill in the first two columns of the chart with what they already know and what they hope to learn. Then, after reading the book, they fill in the last column with the new information they learned. ◾ We All Share the Earth: Students will determine whether the examples describe the sun, soil, rain, wind, or air (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED). ◾ Word Scramble (2 versions are included - one with a word bank and one without): Students use the details from the book to unscramble the words (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED). ◾ Who Am I?: Students will match the words in the word bank to the descriptions and draw & color a picture of each one (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED). ◾ 3-2-1: Students name three things Earth gives us and explain why they are important; describe two ways that all living things share Earth; and choose one word that best describes Earth and explain why. ◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story. Identifying Imagery: Students will read the sentences from the story and identify imagery through the author's use of sensory details. ◾ 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. ◾ 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). ◾ Earth ABCs: Students write words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to show what they learned about Earth's shared resources. ◾ Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED). ◾ Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle. Words can go across or down. Letters are shared when the words intersect (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED). ◾ Acrostic Poem: Students create an acrostic poem to show their understanding of Earth and how its resources are shared among all living things. ◾ Mini Acrostic Poems: Students will write an acrostic poem for each of the things the Earth gives us, using one-word descriptions for each letter to describe the resources below. ◾ Earth Poster: Students will create an informative poster about the Earth and how its resources are shared among all living things, including illustrations, key facts, and three new vocabulary words from the book. ◾ Fun Facts About Earth: Students will record interesting information and fun facts about Earth. ◾ New Vocabulary: Students choose four new words that they learned while reading about Earth, write the word, find its meaning, and draw a picture for each word. ◾ Book Review: Students will rate and review the book. ◾ All About Earth Brochure: Students will research to learn more about Earth's shared resources using the guiding questions in the brochure. ◾ Personification Poem Brainstorm: Students choose something related to the story to personify and brainstorm imagery around noun and verb word pairs. ◾ Personification Poem: Students will write and illustrate their personification poem. ◾ Haiku Poem Planning Sheet: Students will choose a topic or object that relates to the story, 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. ◾ Cinquain Poem: Students will write a Cinquain poem about something related to the resources we all share on Earth. This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.
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