Books Come Alive for Children With Picture Book Activities. Crafts, questions, journal pages, printables activities for your favorite books!
Children can explore books through their senses and with a hands-on approach while learning and making memories. These preschool books and the activities that we’ve come up with…are popular children’s books that are fun to read, and fun to play along with! These are book extension activities that we’ve read and come up with book-based ... Read more
Welcome back to my series of posts highlighting some of my very favorite, favorite picture books and the supplementary games, songs, and activities you could use with them. This could be useful for library programs, the classroom, homeschooling, or (of course) to just have fun with your kids! You can see all my book activity ideas here. But today, I'll share ideas for... Not only one of my favorites, but also a Caldecott winner! The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat is an awesome story with even awesome-er illustrations. It's colorful, it's bright, it inspires me...to share lots of awesome activities. These are targetted at the book's target age group of about 4 to 7 years old. Check them out below! 1. Draw your own imaginary friend -- This one pretty much goes without saying, but this book does provide the most excellent of opportunities to exercise one's imagination. So draw a portrait of your buddy, whether he/she comes purely from your mind's eye or whether you draw some inspiration from Beekle's end pages. Giant sketchbook and pen are not necessary (but could be fun!) Dan Santat at work, from The Horn Book 2. Waiting games -- Beekle has to do a lot of waiting while on the island of imaginary friends. Kids know all about how hard it is to wait. So play some games that can be used everywhere and anywhere that waiting is a must (doctor's office, airports, etc, etc). These may include classics like "I Spy" or here's a list of 20 ideas from What Do We Do All Day. Or, better yet, this might also be a great time to exercise your brain and invent your own. 3. Build a boat -- Beekle escapes the island on his own! This is a great opportunity for some STEM magic: building a boat. What floats? What propels? What materials will make a great boat? Gather some supplies and a pool of water, and let the kids have at it. A whole list of boat ideas from Kid Activities Blog 4. Have boat races -- It only makes sense that after making some awesome boats you could also hold boat races to see whose is fastest or sturdiest, etc. 5. Eat cake -- Beekle is surprised to only see adults eating cake when he reaches the big city. It's time to remedy that with cake time with the kids! Bonus points if your cake actually involves Beekle himself. Fan-made Beekle cake from Dan Santat's Tumblr 6. Visit playground/park -- Beekle finds his old friends at the park's playground. Sounds like a great excuse to get outside and play! Make sure to tell your kids to invite their imaginary friends. 7. Make rainbows -- Beekle was born on the end of a rainbow, so try making your own! There's a variety of ways that it can be done; work with your kids to see what materials are absolutely necessary (e.g. source of light) and what materials make the best rainbows (prisms vs. water, etc.) One of five ways explained on One Time Through 8. Sing "The More We Get Together" -- This book is all about friendship, so what better way to celebrate that than with a song about friends? It's also a great song to practice some sign language. Check out this video from Skokie Library for an example. 9. Go on a city scavenger hunt -- Live in the big city? Make like Beekle and start exploring. See if you and the kids can find certain items or landmarks to make the trip especially fun. 10. Make your own paper crowns -- Beekle's headwear is stylin'. See if you kids can make some of their own stylin' crows, like these ones I made for my royalty storytime. 11. Make goals -- Just like Beekle's determination to find a friend, see if your kids have some goals they're determined to accomplish. Perhaps they want to learn a new sport or try a new food. Write them down and make a plan to get it done! 12. Matching game -- Play a fun game with the endpapers from The Adventures of Beekle. This image from Book Riot is big enough to print at home to cut out these portraits of friends. For younger kids, a double print of each image is sufficient to play a simple matching game. But for an extra challenge, try cutting the real kid out separate from their imaginary friend, and match them back together for your game. From an interview with Santat on Book Riot 13. Caldecott discussion -- Kids are never too young to appreciate some good art. Talk about your favorite pictures from the book and why, maybe, the book got an award for its illustrations. You could even practice drawing like Dan Santat. 14. Read more Dan Santat books! -- Mr. Santat has written and illustrated books for kids of all ages. Try out these other books of his! ........ Whether you do one or all, I hope you have a lot of fun with these ideas to supplement The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend!
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Children can explore books through their senses and with a hands-on approach while learning and making memories. These preschool books and the activities that we’ve come up with…are popular children’s books that are fun to read, and fun to play along with! These are book extension activities that we’ve read and come up with book-based ... Read more
One by Kathryn Otoshi Picture Book Month Extension Activities. Kids will love exploring feelings and friendship with these fun book inspired activities.
Explore 6 engaging social studies activities for primary students. Read now to make history and community lessons exciting!
Matchbook chapter summaries super simple and fun project that you can have your students complete during your next novel study.
Free Printable Book Extension Activity for Mo Willems' adorable and funny book, The Duckling Gets the Cookie. Fun for story retelling and fine motor work.
Splat and the Cool School Trip Lessons and Activities. The Splat the Cat books delight kids as they follow the adventures of Splat the Cat and his friends.
If I Built a School (Chris Van Dusen) now accompanied by fun book extension activities, word work, writing prompts and an awesome class project! Inside you will find: teacher guide for interactive read aloud with stopping points available in bookmarks/sticky notes format, before and after reading activities a variety of worksheets targeting reading literature skills, word work activities and flashcards, writing prompts "If We Built a School" STEM class project: 7 school rooms to plan and design Check the thumbnails and click the preview button! If you have further questions, check thumbnails and preview or ask me in Questions And Answers or on my e-mail [email protected] ***************************** If you enjoyed using this product, you are welcome to leave feedback and make credits you can redeem to save money on further purchases. I would love to hear from you! If you are interested in more reading literature resources or would like to stay updated about the new products, sales and freebies, click the "Follow" button with the green star under the store logo. Thank you for interest in this product and happy teaching!
Children can explore books through their senses and with a hands-on approach while learning and making memories. These preschool books and the activities that we’ve come up with…are popular children’s books that are fun to read, and fun to play along with! These are book extension activities that we’ve read and come up with book-based ... Read more
Books Come Alive for Children With Picture Book Activities. Crafts, questions, journal pages, printables activities for your favorite books!
Everyone counts at Alluem Kids! And so do all the colors in Kathryn Otoshi's picture book One. This is one of my favorite books on the subject of bullying and getting along with each other - even the tougher personalities in our lives...like Red. Red is a hot head who likes to pick on Blue, a quiet color. Red was such a bully he often made "Blue feel bad about being Blue." He would often taunt, "Red is hot! Blue is not!" And when the other colors heard this business, they would comfort Blue, but never in front of Red. They too were afraid of Red - which just made him bigger and bigger! Then one day a grey-shaped number One showed up with "bold strokes and square corners" and he stood right up to Red. "I, for One, stand up and say, No!" Red did not like this. He grew hotter and hotter! One inspired the others and they wanted to count, too! "Yellow felt brave and said, Me Two! And Green said, Me Three!" All the colors wanted to count, including Blue, and they all stood up to Red, who grew smaller and smaller. Then One thought, "Can Red be hot AND Blue be cool?" Sure!! Red wanted to count, too, and joined in the fun! It would be a more peaceful world if we could just recognized that everyone counts! You can start really great discussion with children of any age through this story - how to recognize a bully, what to do if you are being bullied, what you can do if you see someone being bullied, what the world would be like without bullies - just to name a few. For the Alluem Little Kids this week, after the story and some discussion, we worked on the below activity. The kids were to pick a strong color to represent the bully. If they had a bully in their life, they could put a name to that circle. The number One would represent themselves - strong and straight, standing right up to that bully. The other circles would represent the people in their lives who supported them - friends, family, teachers, classmates, teammates. Seeing how many people in their lives who support them makes that bully much smaller!
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Are you a school or public librarian looking for a wonderful book to share with children for story time? The Library Dragon is a fun story to share about a dragon who is hired to take care of / guard the books in the library. The dragon eventually comes to the realization that the library belongs to the children and the children should be allowed to use the books. Once the dragon figures this out, her scales fall off and a wonderful children's librarian appears. ***IF YOU ALREADY OWN THE CELEBRATE LIBRARIES! 1O PICTURE BOOK BUNDLE, DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT - YOU ALREADY OWN IT!*** This story is easy to relate to for all children (and librarians too)! I have created 9 activities to go along with this story. These activities allow for creativity and help children with comprehension. Activities Included: Wanted Poster Activity (Advertise for a Children's Librarian) Putting Fiction books in order simple activity Character Changes from Beginning to End of Story Writing Activity Creating Reasonable Rules for the Library Activity Making Connections - Text to Self Making Connections - Text to Text Making Connections - Text to World Simple Book Review This is perfect for a school librarian or a public librarian who is looking to extend story time or send home an activity. The Library Dragon would also be a very easy lesson to leave for a substitute - just leave the book and the copies and your sub will be ready to go.
Extend your enjoyment of five favorite kindergarten read-alouds with this creative list of activities, crafts, themed play ideas, outings, and experiments.
Sideways Stories from Wayside School book extension hands-on activities, writing prompts, discussion questions. Teacher resource literacy unit.
Get this CUTE, EASY, and FREE cut-and-paste caterpillar craft for kids to make as they enjoy reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
Use these seven go-to activities to deepen your experience with any read-aloud and add zest to your homeschool.
“Mrs. Ortiz, I’m done!” It’s a refrain heard in every classroom, the only difference being the name of the teacher. Some students are naturally fast workers. Even after checking or editing their w…
Everybody Cooks Rice Book Activities! A Text Talk Book Extension! Complete with Graphic Organizer for students to recall the Characters, Setting, and Plot in the literature. Answer Key is included. Also included are Graphic Designs of the Neighborhood in the story for students to color and draw in t...
Oodles of resources to use with your favorite children's books. All of the activities are hands-on and build literacy skills.
We love mystery chapter books so we had a hard time choosing which book to read for the Virtual Chapter Book Club for Kids this month! After some discussion we chose Nancy Clancy by Robin
Art-integration and core subject connections for 10 great books! This is the Volume I in the series. Click here to see Volume II. Included on each page are 3+ extension activity ideas for each book. Extension activities include visual art integration and core subject connections. Activities are appropriate (and can be further adapted) for a variety of grade-levels. Also a GREAT resource for sub plans! :) Books included: o Mouse Shapes o The Big Orange Splot o The Chicken Problem o The Color of Us ** o The Day the Crayons Quit o The Rainbow Fish ** o Planting a Rainbow o The Grouchy Ladybug ** o Pezzettino ** o Iggy Peck Architect ** Books marked with an ** also include a link to an art lesson posted on my teaching blog inspired by the book. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to contact me at [email protected] and/or leave some feedback! :) Check out my Blog, Instagram, and Facebook page for great ideas and giveaways!
Introducing the powerful book of words featured in this week’s MaiStoryBook Library Collection: “The Word Collector” by Peter H. Reynolds *~Click here to purchase your own copy of…
Introducing an inspirational read celebrating *you*~ featured in the MaiStoryBook Library Collection: “Be You” by Peter H. Reynolds *~Click here to purchase your own copy of “Be You” to …
Engage your students in a rigorous interactive read aloud with the book Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty. Students will love the read aloud and be able to apply their knowledge in the extension activities and writing prompts centered around the book's theme of perseverance. Get all current interactive read alouds H A L F off with the Interactive Read Aloud ENDLESS Bundle! Now a part of the Interactive Read Alouds Bundle! Get this and other high-interest titles at a major discount. The bundle includes 20 full interactive read aloud lesson plans and activities! Ada Twist, Scientist Interactive Read Aloud and Activities is a lesson plan for an interactive read aloud and writing activities for Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty. Please note that the book is not included in this resource. The interactive read aloud lesson plan is a one-page formatted lesson plan. It has a story synopsis to read as you introduce the book, interactive questions to read before, during, and after the story, the theme of the story, vocabulary words, and reading/writing/think aloud extensions to work on after the read aloud. The interactive questions are also formatted for sticky notes so that you can place them throughout the book for your read aloud. Simply print the sticky note template, cover with sticky notes, and reprint the interactive question sticky notes. Included in this download is: - lesson plan format template - interactive lesson plan for Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty - sticky note template - interactive question sticky notes - 3 differentiated writing prompts - 3 story maps - coloring pages for story sequencing - Google Slides™ templates - Ada Twist craft in color and black-and-white More Interactive Read Alouds: We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds Strictly No Elephants by Lisa Mantchev Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima The Good Egg by Jory John The Bad Seed by Jory John The Cool Bean by Jory John The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires After the Fall by Dan Santant Leo the Late Bloomer Robert Kraus Gaston by Kelly DiPucchio The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña Enemy Pie by Derek Munson Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada Enjoy! :) ★★★ How to get TpT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Below each purchase, you will see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TpT gives you credits that you can use towards future purchases! ☺ Follow me to be the first to know about my store-wide sales, freebies and new products! ☺
This post may contain Amazon affiliate links for your convenience. Read full disclosure here. EXTRA YARN BY MAC BARNETT Extra Yarn is written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by one of my favorite illustrators, Jon Klassen. A little girl named Anabelle finds a magical box of colorful yarn. She knits herself a sweater but she has leftover yarn. She knits more and more and more and eventually transforms her dull gray town with her colorful knitting. BEYOND THE BOOK ACTIVITIES YARN BOMBING Look at examples of yarn bombing like the work of Philadelphia street artist Ishknits. Students can transform…
One by Kathryn Otoshi Picture Book Month Extension Activities. Kids will love exploring feelings and friendship with these fun book inspired activities.
Make a Giraffe and a Half Rhyming Kit with the kids. Picture Book inspired art and craft projects get the kids excited about reading!
Introducing an inspirational read celebrating *you*~ featured in the MaiStoryBook Library Collection: “Be You” by Peter H. Reynolds *~Click here to purchase your own copy of “Be You” to …
Product Includes: Student mini book *only need one sheet of paper to make 8 page mini book* Easy to understand instructions for mini book assembly Student spelling and vocabulary extension activity Simple Literacy™ believes building students confidence in reading is key! By explicitly teaching phonemes and graphemes students will build stronger literacy foundations. This book and extension activity focus on final blends. Providing students with real books to hold and personalize gives them multiple opportunities to practice the target skill, all while building their confidence and love for reading. After explicitly teaching final blends, use this mini book and extension activity to allow students to practice using this concept in a text. Students can personalize their book by coloring the black and white illustrations. Once students have mastered final blends in the text, use the extension activity to help them practice spelling words with final blends from the text.
Picture books are my favorite teaching tool. I love using them in book units, reading lessons, math lessons, science lessons, and of course relaxing in a read aloud. This mega-bundle includes all my book units with extension activities and interactive reading prompts for before, during, and after reading. The best part is this mega-bundle is a growing bundle so you will also get access to all my future book units at no extra cost. My book extension activities for fiction and non-fiction literature are some of my best selling products. Teachers and students love them, and now they are available in a money saving bundle. ENJOY!!! Below are some of my best selling book units included in this bundle: Rosie's Walk What Do You Do With a Tail Like That? Where the Wild Things Are Chickens Aren't the Only Ones Clothing Clues to Jobs People Do Going on a Bear Hunt Plus dozens more... Currently there are 40 titles in this mega-bundle. This number will grow and as it does so will the price- but when you buy now you get all future additions for free.
Product Includes: Student mini book *only need one sheet of paper to make 8 page mini book* Easy to understand instructions for mini book assembly Student spelling and vocabulary extension activity Simple Literacy™ believes building students confidence in reading is key! By explicitly teaching phonemes and graphemes students will build stronger literacy foundations. This book and extension activity focus on the 'ch' grapheme. Providing students with real books to hold and personalize gives them multiple opportunities to practice the target skill, all while building their confidence and love for reading. After explicitly teaching the 'ch' grapheme, use this mini book and extension activity to allow students to practice using this grapheme in a text. Students can personalize their book by coloring the black and white illustrations. Once students have mastered the 'ch' grapheme in the text, use the extension activity to help them practice spelling words with 'ch' from the text.
Teach inclusion and focus on important topics using this engaging read aloud picture book (“All My Stripes" by: Shaina Rudolph & Danielle Royer) with effective extension activities to keep your special education students engaged with the text. Using picture books in the classroom is an incredibly effective way to target many goals for special education students. "All My Stripes" Book Companion, Craft, Comprehension Quizzes, and more! What book is this for? “All My Stripes" by: Shaina Rudolph & Danielle Royer What is included? Leveled Comprehension Quizzes - Level 1: Picture Comprehension - Level 2: Written Response - Level 3: Blank Response Visuals - Craft (with real picture visuals) - Whole Group Vocabulary - Clips Cards - Matching Cards Worksheets - Craft Sequencing - Sequencing - Story Map Teacher Planning Guide - Suggested Schedule - Suggested Materials *All resources are differentiated Do I need the book? Book companions are a supplement to the book. This book companion resource does not contain any text from the book. NOTE: “All My Stripes" by: Shaina Rudolph & Danielle Royer must be purchased separately or found at your local library. FIND ME HERE! Facebook Instagram Email Blog
This Community Helpers Interactive Adapted Book Unit teaches answering "who" questions with multiple activities that engage students with interactive pieces. With the pack you get a full color interactive book to use in class, a black and white "take-home" book, and extra extension activities to reinforce the concepts taught. Contents: Full Color Adapted Book with Visuals - great for circle time, group speech therapy, or individual activities Adapted, Interactive "Who is your favorite community helper?" Activity - great for group speech to practice both asking and answering questions Black and White Cut and Glue Book with Visuals - perfect for center time, speech therapy, and to take home Puzzles - additional hands-on activity to practice answering "who" questions or go-togethers 5 community helpers and their tools are targeted in the activities. Instructions for putting together the book are included. Want more interactive adapted books? Save a ton with the Interactive Adapted Books Bundle for Early Language Skills. 11 Interactive Book Packs and growing! Save over 25%! If you like this pack you may also like: Where Questions Adapted Book and Activities - Community Helpers Where Questions Adapted Book and Activities - Vehicles Where Questions Adapted Book and Activities - Animals To see all the Communication Window Adapted Book Sets that are available click here! Click here to see a how-to guide on assembling a Communication Window adapted book
Product Includes: Student mini book *only need one sheet of paper to make 8 page mini book* Easy to understand instructions for mini book assembly Student spelling and vocabulary extension activity Simple Literacy™ believes building students confidence in reading is key! By explicitly teaching phonemes and graphemes students will build stronger literacy foundations. This book and extension activity focus on the 'th' grapheme. Providing students with real books to hold and personalize gives them multiple opportunities to practice the target skill, all while building their confidence and love for reading. After explicitly teaching the 'th' grapheme, use this mini book and extension activity to allow students to practice using this grapheme in a text. Students can personalize their book by coloring the black and white illustrations. Once students have mastered the 'th' grapheme in the text, use the extension activity to help them practice spelling words with 'th' from the text.
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Welcome back to my new series of posts highlighting some of my very favorite, favorite books and the supplementary games, songs, and activities you could use with them. This could be useful for library programs, the classroom, home schooling, or (of course) to just have fun with your kids! Previously, I've created fun activity lists for books like If You Plant a Seed and Mother Bruce. Now I'll share ideas for... Oh, the irreverent humor of Jon Klassen in I Want My Hat Back. This is practically a classic by now, it's just so great. It's short, it's to the point, and man, does it have the best ending. So what sort of activities can go along with this book? Well, here are some ideas that will appeal to its target audience of kids aged 4 - 8 years. 1. Make your own pointy hat—Playing by the Book knows just what to do after enjoying this book: make and decorate your own beloved headwear! Her instructions (and my source for the photo) can be found here. 2. Go on a scavenger hunt—Outside or in the library, you can easily make a list of things kids can find. Just like the bear goes on a hunt for his hat, kids can hunt for pine cones, cool rocks, or some bugs outside. Inside? Maybe a blue cover book, a 597.5-Dewey-cataloged book, or certain magazine. 3. Nature walk—see if you can spot any of the plants or animals from the book. 4. Eat a rabbit—Ahem. Well, we don't know that that's exactly what bear did to the poor rabbit, but hey: this bunny-pancake-recipe is pretty cute and tasty! You could even add a strawberry on top to make the red, pointy hat that started all this drama. 5. List some alternate outcomes—Yes, it looks as though Bear ate Rabbit in the end. But what could've bear done instead to get his hat back? 6. Write a prequel or sequel—Do some creative writing and write why you think the rabbit stole the hat in the first place, or what bear did after he had his hat back. 7. Research headwear through the ages—What kind of hats were popular when your parents were kids? Or grandparents? Or great-great-great-grandparents? 8. Sing "We're Going on a Bear Hunt"—see the YouTube video for lyrics here. Get into it by doing all the actions. Try it out in your backyard or at the park for extra fun. 9. Play hide-and-go-seek—You can play the classic version with a small group, or my favorite with a big group: "hot and cold." You know what I mean? It's the game where you have one kid hide a small hat while another kid waits outside the room. When he comes back, the group helps him find the hat by calling out when he is warm & hot (the closer he gets to the hat). 10. Design a missing poster—Is there something you love that's missing? Design a missing poster with a drawing of what's gone, a description, and a reward! Here's a free printable from Create Educate Inspire to get you started. 11. Activity kit—Well, let's not forget the convenient activity kit provided by the publisher with fun games like a crossword! 12. Help a turtle in need—Bear does take the time, even in the middle of searching for his hat, to help a turtle in need. Is there small service you could perform for somebody today? 13. Puppet show—This is such a simple, repetitive book that kids are sure to learn the storyline quickly. Have them act it out themselves, then! Making some brown-sack puppets would make it especially fun. (Photo from Little Family Fun) 14. Imitate all the animals—as you read about each animal the bear comes across, have the kids do their best impersonation! Can they hop like a bunny or slither like a snake? 15. Read the other books in the series—Klassen has JUST released his third and final book in this series. So try out This is Not My Hat and We Found a Hat. Do you like either of those better than the first book? ........ Whether you do one or all, I hope you have a lot of fun with these ideas to supplement I Want My Hat Back.
Product Includes: Student mini book *only need one sheet of paper to make 8 page mini book* Easy to understand instructions for mini book assembly Student spelling and vocabulary extension activity Simple Literacy™ believes building students confidence in reading is key! By explicitly teaching phonemes and graphemes students will build stronger literacy foundations. This book and extension activity focus on initial r blends. Providing students with real books to hold and personalize gives them multiple opportunities to practice the target skill, all while building their confidence and love for reading. After explicitly teaching initial r blends, use this mini book and extension activity to allow students to practice using this concept in a text. Students can personalize their book by coloring the black and white illustrations. Once students have mastered initial r blends in the text, use the extension activity to help them practice spelling words with initial r blends from the text.
Books Come Alive for Children With Picture Book Activities. Crafts, questions, journal pages, printables activities for your favorite books!
