The Wolf's Chicken Stew activities and lesson plan ideas

 Our The Wolf's Chicken Stew Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Keiko Kasza'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

☐ making predictions

☐ summarize / retell

☐ analyzing character

☐ ask and answer questions

☐ sequencing

☐ rhyme / rhythm / repetition

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ feelings

☐ patience

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ plural nouns

☐ adjectives

☐ contraction

☐ quotation marks

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The main character of The Wolf’s Chicken Stew is a very hungry wolf! He has a craving for chicken stew and is pleased when he sees a chicken walk by him. He decides that this chicken will be perfect for his stew, but first, he needs to fatten her up.

The wolf brings the chicken pancakes, doughnuts, and a cake. He leaves them at her door. When the wolf decides the chicken must be fattened up, he goes to eat her.

When wolf gets to the chicken’s house, she opens the door and brings the wolf inside. She tells her chicks that the wolf brought them the food and they jump on him with joy and thank him. The wolf does not eat the chickens and instead has developed a friendship with them.

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