A great book companion to go along with AS COOL AS IT GETS. Make your Christmas read aloud session or winter holidays lessons as cool as they get WITH 40+ ACTIVITIES and 5 DAYS of lesson plans! AS COOL AS IT GETS by Jory John is a marvelous story about gift giving, gratefulness and appreciating the holiday season.
Explore the message of this read aloud with this book companion filled with rigorous AS COOL AS IT GETS activities. Accompanied by detailed instructions to the teacher. AS COOL AS IT GETS CRAFT INCLUDED!
In this unit you will find 5 DAYS OF DETAILED LESSON PLANS to accompany reading AS COOL AS IT GETS by Jory John. The lessons are filled with rigorous and engaging activities to help your students effectively and meaningfully engage with the book. The focus of each day in this study is the following:
- Day 1 Introducing the book, Making inferences and predictions
- Day 2 Character analysis (traits, motivation, feelings)
- Day 3 Vocabulary development, Story elements (settings, point of view, key events), Retelling & Summarizing
- Day 4 Problem & Solution, Cause & Effect, Main idea & Theme
- Day 5 Author’s purpose and message, Reader’s response, Craft
This unit includes discussion questions that can be used as stopping points while you read. The questions are available for print in two formats: printed on sticky notes using the template provided or on a single page for your reference.
40+ RIGOROUS UNIQUE ACTIVITIES TO GO ALONG WITH “AS COOL AS IT GETS” READ ALOUD — inside the unit you will find:
- INTRODUCING THE BOOK: making predictions about the book, draw your own cover for “As Cool as It Gets”
- INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS: analyzing the cover
- ACTIVATING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:
- READER’S RESPONSE: making connection to other books, text-to-self connection (the Cool Bean and me)
- CHARACTER ANALYSIS: 7 unique activities
- BOOK EXTENSION & CREATIVE WRITING: 4 activities
- KEY DETAILS & EVENTS: play “Text Detectives” and explain how the objects are connected to the text of “As Cool as It Gets”
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Illustrate the literal and the figurative meaning of the expressions in the story
- STORY ELEMENTS: SETTINGS AND POINT OF VIEW, PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
- SEQUENCING AND RETELLING: 5 unique activities
- CAUSE AND EFFECT: explain the cause or the effect of the events in the book.
- EXPLORING THE THEME, GROWTH MINDSET/INFERENCING: deepen your understanding of the theme of the story all while promoting character education with 10 unique activities
- AUTHOR’S MESSAGE & READER’S RESPONSE
- CRAFT THE SOUR GRAPE’S BIRTHDAY INVITATION: apologize for your mistake with last year’s invitation and craft an invitiation for your party this year
- WORD WORK: word search, odd word out, unscramble the sentences, synonyms & antonyms activity and more
If you have any questions, check thumbnails and preview or ask me in Questions And Answers or on my e-mail leighenne.ell@gmail.com
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