Click Clack Moo activities and lesson plan ideas

Click, Clack, Moo Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Doreen Cronin'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 inferences

☐ making predictions

☐ summarize / retell

☐ plot | problem - solution

☐ identifying genre

☐ cause and effect

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ perseverance

☐ advocation

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ prefixes

☐ types of sentences

☐ onomatopoeia

☐ time order words

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The cows on Farmer Brown’s farm are causing a problem for him. They found an old typewriter and have been typing all day! When Farmer Brown heads to the barn to check on them, he finds a note the cows have left for him. They are asking for electric blankets because it is cold in the barn at night. When Farmer Brown tells the cows they won’t get blankets, the cows write a letter to him explaining that the hens want blankets too.

Farmer Brown won’t agree to give the animals electric blankets so they decide to go on strike. They will not give him any milk or eggs until he supplies the blankets. Farmer Brown is furious with the animals and demands the milk and eggs. Farmer Brown finally agrees and gives the cows and hens their electric blankets. The next morning, Farmer Brown is expecting duck will return the typewriter to him. However, he is surprised when he receives a letter from the ducks instead!

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