FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS activities and lesson plan ideas

This FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS 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, FLETCHER AND THE SPRINGTIME BLOSSOMS by Julia Rawlinson, 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

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ PLURAL NOUNS

☐ PRONOUNS

☐ ACTION VERBS

☐ SUFFIXES

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ COMPASSION

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

It is a nice spring day and Fletcher is outside enjoying nature. He finds himself in an orchard after tumbling down a hill and is surprised by what he sees: white flakes falling from the sky! Fletcher is immediately concerned about the cold and how it will affect the buds and butterflies so he sets off to spread the word.

Fletcher comes across a group of birds and explains they’ve flown home too early. He tells them about the snow that is coming and they decide that before they fly south they must tell Porcupine. When Porcupine hears about the snow, he is concerned about Squirrel and whether or not he has enough food. The group of animals set out to warn Squirrel.

Squirrel hears about the snow and wants to tell the rabbits so they can eat as much grass as they can. The rabbits hear about the snow and decide before they start eating, they should all go play! All the animals make their way to the orchard and realize that it wasn’t snow after all! Blossoms were falling from the trees! All of the animals have fun playing in the piles of blossoms together.

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