SATURDAY activities and lesson plan ideas

This SATURDAY 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, SATURDAY by Oge Mora, 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

☐ Author's Purpose

☐ Cause and Effect

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ Ellipses

☐ Onomatopoeia

☐ Quotation Marks

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ Conflict Resolution

☐ Emotions

☐ Self-Regulation

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Ava could hardly wait. After her mother worked all week, it was finally Saturday! She looked forward to spending this time with her mom. They usually would go to the library for storytime, get their hair done, and picnic in the park. This Saturday was especially special because they were going to a puppet show!

Hopes started high that morning, but slowly, everything started to go wrong. Storytime was cancelled at the library, a splash from a car ruined their hairdos, and the park was too loud for a picnic. They rushed to the bus before they missed it for the puppet show. When they got to the front of the line, Ava’s mother realized she forgot the tickets in the kitchen! Ava’s mom broke down, but Ava reminded her that the most important thing about Saturday was that they were together.

After, they went home and put on a puppet show of their own! After all, being together is really all that matters.

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