OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER activities and lesson plan ideas

 This OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER 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, OLIVE, THE OTHER REINDEER by J. Otto Seibold, 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 INFERENCES

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ ACTION VERBS

☐ MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS

☐ ADJECTIVES

☐ SHADES OF MEANING

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ ACCEPTANCE

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

It’s the holiday season and Olive the dog is on her daily walk outside. Music is playing and people sing along “all of the other reindeer.” Olive is too shy to sing outside, but when she gets home she sings along to the music: “Olive the other reindeer.” That’s when she realizes, she must be a reindeer!

Olive makes the long trip to the North Pole to help Santa Claus like the other reindeer. When she arrives, Santa allows her to join, knowing she won’t be able to fly. The reindeer tie her to the sleigh and they start off on their journey.

Throughout the night, Olive is able to help Santa and the reindeer with her unique qualities. She was able to chew branches to free the sleigh from a tree. She was able to smell gum drops allowing Santa to catch them before they were all lost and she was able to fetch all of the flutes that fell out of the sleigh. Most importantly, Olive was able to guide Santa’s sleigh home when the fog was so thick the reindeer couldn’t see. Olive used her strong sense of smell to follow the scent of Mrs. Claus’s cookies.

Olive, Santa, and the reindeer arrive back at the North Pole to celebrate. Santa even gives Olive a very special present, her own set of reindeer antlers.

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