Inside you will find a book companion to complement THE COUCH POTATO read aloud session. The Couch Potato by Jory John is a marvelous story about finding balance between the time spent inside using gadgets and exploring the great big world outside.
Explore the message of The Couch Potato read aloud further with this book companion filled with rigorous activities and accompanied by detailed instructions to the teacher. THE COUCH POTATO BOOK CRAFT INCLUDED!
In this unit you will find 5 DAYS OF DETAILED LESSON PLANS to accompany reading The Couch Potato 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 “THE COUCH POTATO” READ ALOUD — inside the unit you will find:
- INTRODUCING THE BOOK: making predictions about the book, draw your own cover
- INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS: analyzing the cover
- ACTIVATING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: life in the ‘olden days’ without gadgets
- READER’S RESPONSE: making connection to other books, text-to-self connection
- CHARACTER ANALYSIS: 6 unique activities
- BOOK EXTENSION & CREATIVE WRITING: provide the Couch Potato with the reasons we should go out and explore the great big world outside
- KEY DETAILS & EVENTS: play “Text Detectives”
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Illustrate the literal and the figurative meaning of the expressions in the story, imaging your carton of friends
- 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: deepen your understanding of the theme of the story all while promoting character education
- AUTHOR’S MESSAGE & READER’S RESPONSE
- ‘ON MY COUCH CRAFT’: take up the role of the Good Egg’s doctor and help his shell heal from cracking up
- GROWTH MINDSET/INFERENCING: compare fixed mindest of the Potato at the beginning of the story with the growth mindset at the end of the story
- BOOK RESPONSE/WRITING: write a letter to recommend reading ‘The Couch Potato’ by Jory John
- WORD WORK: word search, odd word out, unscramble the sentences, synonyms & antonyms activity
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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