THE ANTI-TEST ANXIETY SOCIETY activities and lesson plan ideas

This THE ANTI-TEST ANXIETY SOCIETY 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, THE ANTI-TEST ANXIETY SOCIETY by Julia Cook, 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 CHARACTER

☐ SUMMARIZING

☐ AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ ELLIPSES

☐ EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ WORRY

☐ GROWTH MINDSET

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The story The Anti-Test Anxiety Society by Julia Cook is about a girl named BB who hates taking tests. She thinks the words test stands for terrible every single time! When BB goes to take a test the hair on the back of her neck stands up, her face turns as red as a beet, she starts to sweat, her stomach aches, and she can’t control her feet. She knows she will get a bad grade on the tests so she doesn’t even want to try.

One day, BB tells her teacher how she feels about taking tests and her teacher says she should join the The Anti-Test Anxiety Society. This a group of kids who prepare for tests and try their best. They teach BB the Dynamic Dozen steps for preparing for a test and trying your best on the test. With the help of society, BB changes her mindset about test-taking.

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