Chocolate Milk, Por Favor activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Chocolate Milk, Por Favor Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Maria Dismondy's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ comparing and contrasting

☐ analyzing character

☐ making connections

☐ sequencing

☐ author's purpose

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ diversity

☐ kindness

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ irregular verbs

☐ nouns

☐ pronouns

☐ prepositions

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

There is a new student in Johnny’s class, his name is Gabe. The teacher explains that Gabe will not understand them for awhile. He speaks Spanish and is just learning English, so they must find ways to help him. Johnny does not like Gabe. He thinks he is a crybaby and does not want to share with him.

When Johnny sees his classmates helping Gabe, he doesn’t understand why they are being nice to him. He thinks Gabe is just not like them. As the classmates continue to eat lunch and play with Gabe, Johnny starts to be left out. One day, Gabe shows Johnny how to do a tricky soccer move that Johnny had been struggling to learn. Johnny realizes that his frustration must be similar to how Gabe feels trying to learn English. The next day he decides to bring Gabe chocolate milk and learns how important it is to have a friend.

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social-Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list-making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables