Picture Book Companion Activities Grades K-2

With these K - 2 resources you get 5 days of reading lesson plans with all center activities and worksheets included.

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Monkey business is lots of fun for kindergarten and first grade students. With five days of reading lesson plans, center activities and worksheets your students will love reading about the monkeys and the peddler!
Activities include:
· Day 1 – Vocabulary and Writing Center– class book
· Day 2 – Story Elements whole group, anchor chart, flip book
· Day 3 - Retelling whole group, centers and worksheet
· Day 4 – Cause and Effect - center activity, anchor chart, worksheet
· Day 5- Word Families – center activity and worksheet
· Math
·CCvC Words
·Community Helpers

Learning names and meeting new people can be tough. Help your students with this wonderful book based unit. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes is a great back to school unit for names. The Chrysanthemum activities will have your students learning the names of their classmates, spelling their own name, and so much more. Help your students learn names and introduce them to an amazing book at the same time.


Learning names and meeting new people can be tough. Help your students with this wonderful book based unit. Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes is a great back to school unit for names. The Chrysanthemum activities will have your students learning the names of their classmates, spelling their own name, and so much more. Help your students learn names and introduce them to an amazing book at the same time.
This book companion for Chrysanthemum includes 5 days of before, during and after reading lessons; center activities for recognizing syllables, sequencing story events and determining more or less; comprehension; vocabulary; writing, all using the book characters or the students' names.
Table of Contents
ELA
• Title, author, illustrator, vocabulary lesson and cards
• Flower Friends– writing activity
• Sequencing lesson and cards
• Syllable lesson, center activity and worksheets
• Extra Activities
Math
• More or Less – lesson, center activity and worksheet
• Name Glyph

This resource includes a complete one week lesson plan and unit on The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Each day includes activities for a close reading style lesson of the book. This book study of The Rainbow Fish is a wonderful way to model good reading for your students. Additional literacy and math activities related to the book are also included. Skills in this 5 day lesson plan include: Vocabulary, Writing, Sequencing, Sight Words, Adjectives, Blends, Digraphs and Math (Addition). Center activities and worksheets are also included.

This resource includes a complete one week lesson plan and unit on The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Each day includes activities for a close reading style lesson of the book. This book study of The Rainbow Fish is a wonderful way to model good reading for your students. Additional literacy and math activities related to the book are also included. Skills in this 5 day lesson plan include: Vocabulary, Writing, Sequencing, Sight Words, Adjectives, Blends, Digraphs and Math (Addition). Center activities and worksheets are also included.
The Rainbow Fish Book Study Includes:
•Day 1 Lesson Plan with a focus on Vocabulary and Writing
•Day 2 Lesson Play with a focus on Sequencing
•Day 3 Lesson Play with a focus on Sight Words
•Day 4 Lesson Play with a focus on Grammar (Adjectives)
•Day 5 Lesson Plan with a focus on Blends and Digraphs
•Additional Math Activity with a focus on Addition
This resource includes the written lesson plans and all coordinating items including posters, cards, pieces for creating anchor charts, center activities, worksheets and a shape book for the writing center.

This 77-page book companion for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has 5 days of before, during and after reading lessons, center activities and worksheets. The skills included are vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, sight words, counting, writing and word pairs.  This unit combines literacy, and math concepts.

This 77-page book companion for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie has 5 days of before, during and after reading lessons, center activities and worksheets. The skills included are vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, sight words, counting, writing and word pairs.
This unit combines literacy, and math concepts.



This book companion is perfect for first grade or second grade students.  Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig teaching resource has 5 days of lesson plans which include center activities and worksheets

This book companion is perfect for first grade or second grade students.
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig teaching resource has 5 days of lesson plans which include center activities and worksheets for:
Story Elements,
•Vocabulary,
•Sequencing,
•Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
•Summarization,
•Vowels,
•Class Book,
•Comprehension,
•Scrambled Sentences


The little mouse is trying to hide a red ripe strawberry from a big hungry bear. Find out how he solves his problem with this 69-page book companion with lesson plans.   Five days of reading lesson plans

The little mouse is trying to hide a red ripe strawberry from a big hungry bear. Find out how he solves his problem with this 69-page book companion with lesson plans.

Five days of reading lesson plans include:

• Day 1 Before, During, After Lessons – Writing - class book
• Day 2 Before, During, After Lessons – Syllables – center activity and worksheet
• Day 3 Before, During, After Lessons - Retelling – center activity and worksheets
• Day 4 Before, During, After Lessons – Character’s Feelings – center activity, worksheet
• Day 5 Before, During, After Lessons – Word Family ed – center and worksheets

Extra - worksheets
• Upper and Lowercase Letters – center activity
• Missing Letters
• Tracing
• Dot to Dot 1-30
• Mystery Picture


This book companion for Giraffes Can't Dance is a 5 day lesson plan about a giraffe named Gerald who wants to dance like the other animals. He meets a cricket who encourages him to learn to dance to his own music. This unit has 59 pages of lesson plans, center activities and worksheets.

This book companion for Giraffes Can't Dance is a 5 day lesson plan about a giraffe named Gerald who wants to dance like the other animals. He meets a cricket who encourages him to learn to dance to his own music. This unit has 59 pages of lesson plans, center activities and worksheets.

Table of contents
 Day 1 - Before, During, After Reading Plans – Story Elements
• Day 2 - Before, During, After Reading Plans – Writing
 Day 3 - Before, During, After Reading Plans – Sequencing
 Day 4 - Before, During, After Reading Plans – Rhyming
• Day 5- Before, During, After Reading Plans – Real/Make Believe
• Math – Skip Counting
• Extra Worksheets


The Gruffalo, written by Julia Donaldson, is a delightful rhyming story that our kids love! We have developed this book companion to compliment some of our literacy objectives.  Included skills: Discussion Questions Sequencing Vocabulary Scrambled Sentences Words That Rhyme (but have different spelling patterns)

The Gruffalo, written by Julia Donaldson, is a delightful rhyming story that our kids love! We have developed this book companion to compliment some of our literacy objectives.

Included skills:
Discussion Questions
Sequencing
Vocabulary
Scrambled Sentences
Words That Rhyme (but have different spelling patterns)
Worksheets:
Story Elements
Labeling
Alphabetical Order
Adjectives
Writing
Wondering
Synthesizing
Summarizing


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