Skill:

Use clues to make, revise, and confirm predictions about what will happen next in a story

Activities:

• Circle Plot Diagram

  Use this diagram to write down the events of a story. Can you find any patterns?

• Plot Diagram

  Use this chart to map the events in a story.

• Tale of a Singing Zebra

  Meet Roy the Zebra and Lucy the Elephant and read about their adventures at the zoo and beyond.

Skill:

Draw conclusions when reading

Activities:

• Drawing Conclusions

  Can you show what you know about drawing conclusion?

• Story Map

  This map will help you find the character, setting, conflict, and resolution of a story.

• Deduction

  Use deductive reasoning to find your way across town.

Skill:

Understand descriptions in stories that exaggerate, make comparisons between two unlike things (simile), or give human qualities to non-human objects or animals (personification)

Activities:

• Similes

  Can you finish each simile so that it makes sense?

• Personification Practice

  Find the personification examples such as computers smiling and pencils dancing.

• Simile Game

  Match each word to make a simile. Watch out, some of these are tricky!

Skill:

Write, act, draw, dance or sing in response to reading

Activities:

• Personal Response Journal

  Find out what a personal response is and how you can write about what you read.

• Write your Own Word and Picture Stories

  Use images, objects, and characters from “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” to inspire your own story.

• The Nightingale

  Hear the music inspired by the Chinese story “The Nightingale” and answer questions based on the story.

• Illustrate a Story

  Print out the pages, read the story about the last panda, and draw pictures that you think best fit the story.

Skill:

Understand how characters, setting, and plot affect each other in a story

Activities:

• Character Trading Cards

  Make trading cards for characters from your favorite book or write your own characters for a story.

• Fractured Fairy Tales

  Write your own fractured fairy tales, traditional fairy tales with a twist.

• Inferences can be Based on Characters

  Can you guess what the characters will do next?

Skill:

Understand that poetry uses stanzas, rhyme, and repetition

Activities:

• My Bed is a Boat

  Read the poem “My Bed is a Boat” by Robert Louis Stevenson and answer the questions.

• Children’s Poetry Archive

  Here you can explore poems by many different authors. Find a funny poem and a serious poem!

• Poetry Class

  Try these easy-to-use ideas to make funny poems fast.

• Wizards and Pigs

  Use rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration to navigate this fun poetry-based game.

• Repetition Practice

  Find out how poets use repetition in their writing to make it interesting.