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The Smart Cookie activities and lesson plans to accompany your read aloud sessions! Featuring 5 days of lesson plans, over 35 engaging activities, and a fun craft, it’s the perfect way to bring The Smart Cookie read aloud to life.
Designed to dive deeper into the story’s message, this book companion to go along with The Smart Cookie by Jory John is packed with engaging and rigorous activities with detailed instructions for teachers. Deepen students’ understanding of The Smart Cookie while building literacy skills in a fun and meaningful way
In this unit you will find 5 DAYS OF DETAILED LESSON PLANS to accompany reading The Smart Cookie 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 of the Smart Cookie (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 to The Smart Cookie, 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.
35+ RIGOROUS UNIQUE ACTIVITIES TO GO ALONG WITH “THE SMART COOKIE” READ ALOUD — inside the unit you will find:
- INTRODUCING THE BOOK: making predictions about the book, draw your own cover for The Smart Cookie
- INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS: analyzing the cover
- ACTIVATING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: the power of confidence
- READER’S RESPONSE: making connections between The Smart Cookie and other books, text-to-self connection
- CHARACTER ANALYSIS: 6 unique activities
- BOOK EXTENSION & CREATIVE WRITING: creating new characters for”The Smart Cookie”
- KEY DETAILS & EVENTS: play “Text Detectives”
- FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Illustrate the literal and the figurative meaning of the expressions in the story, imaging yourself as a cookie
- 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
- AUTHOR’S MESSAGE & READER’S RESPONSE
- FORTUNE COOKIES CRAFT: take up the role of Miss Biscotti and prepare fortune cookies with affirmations for your students
If you have any questions, check thumbnails and preview or ask me in Questions And Answers or e-mail me at leighenne.ell@gmail.com
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