Pigsty activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Pigsty Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Mark Teague'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

☐ summarize / retell

☐ analyzing character

☐ making predictions

☐ plot | problem - solution

☐ cause and effect

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ taking ownership

☐ responsibility

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ compound words

☐ articles

☐ antonyms

☐ time order words

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Wendell Fultz’s room is a mess! When his mother pronounces his room a “pigsty'' and sends him upstairs to clean it, Wendell finds a large pig lounging on the bed. Wendell doesn't seem to mind. Instead, he rearranges the mess and joins in the fun. His mother gives up, and for the next week, Wendell happily spends his time with his new friends. Wendell and the pigs enjoy having pillow fights and playing Monopoly together.

Soon after, a second pair of pigs show up and the four of them add to the mess in Wendell’s room. The pigs even start ruining Wendell's toys, and he has to admit that the mess is getting to be too much. Wendell has the pigs help him clean his room and they move out.

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