BOWWOW POWWOW activities and lesson plan ideas

This BOWWOW POWWOW 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, BOWWOW POWWOW by Brenda J. Child, 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

☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS

☐ ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS

☐ AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ NOUNS

☐ IRREGULAR VERBS

☐ ADVERBS

☐ PREPOSITONS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ GRATITUDE

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Windy Girl and her dog Itchy Boy love spending time with their uncle. Some of their favorite memories are driving in his pickup truck listening to stories about powwows from the past. Windy Girl feels that the best nights of the summer take place at the powwow. She enjoys listening to the music, watching the dancers, and eating treats like snow cones and popcorn.

Readers learn about the powwow through Windy Girl’s experience. At the powwow, children stay up late dancing and fall asleep outside under the northern lights. In the book, Windy Girl has a weird and wonderful dream at the powwow. Her dream takes readers on a journey of past powwows. She imagines veterans from the past, a visiting drum group, and various kinds of dancers. Thankfully, Windy wakes up in time for the last dance of the night.

Brenda Child’s book Bowwow Powwow, is a great read aloud to teach students about the cultural importance of powwows and the importance of gratitude.

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