THE SNOWY DAY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This THE SNOWY DAY Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, THE SNOWY DAY by Ezra Jack Keats, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

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

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ VISUALIZING

☐ ANALYZING SETTING

☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ IRREGULAR VERBS

☐ COMPOUND WORDS

☐ ANTONYMS

☐ ONOMATOPOEIA

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ FEELINGS

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

One morning, Peter wakes up and looks out his window. He was excited to see that it had snowed! Everything he can see is covered in snow. Peter eats his breakfast and heads outside. He crunches through the snow, looking at his footprints as he walks. When he finds a stick, Peter uses it to smack a tree. He is surprised when the snow falls from the tree onto his head.

Peter continues his adventures through the snow. He watches some older boys have a snowball fight, and looks forward to when he is old enough to join them. He climbs a big pile of snow and has fun sliding down. Peter even makes snowballs and a snow angel. Before going inside, Peter makes a snowball and puts it in his pocket for the next day.

He is excited to tell his mother about all the fun he had in the snow. Before bed, Peter gets his jacket to check on his snowball and realizes it is gone! Peter is very sad that his snowball is gone. He even dreams that the sun melted all the snow. However, when he wakes up, Peter is delighted to see that the snow is still there! In fact, new snow is falling. After breakfast, Peter and his friend head out into the snow for another day of adventure.

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