THE SQUIRRELS WHO SQUABBLED activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This THE SQUIRRELS WHO SQUABBLED 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 SQUIRRELS WHO SQUABBLED by Rachel Bright, 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

☐ VISUALIZING

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ RHYME | RHYTHM | REPETITION

☐ PLOT I PROBLEM-SOLUTION 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ ACTION VERBS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ ONOMATOPOEIA

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ CONFLICT RESOLUTION

☐ TAKING OWNERSHIP

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

In the story The Squirrels Who Squabbled the forest creatures were preparing to hibernate for the winter. Cyril wakes up and realizes winter is coming and he hasn’t stored away any food. He sees one pinecone left and decides it has to be is. Bruce also sees the pinecone and even though he is prepared for winter and has plenty of food, he decides that he needs the pinecone, too. The two squirrels fight over the pinecone.

They are so busy chasing and arguing over the pinecone that they bump into a bear and get chased by a big bird. They even fall into a fast moving river. The squirrels help each other climb out of the water and decide that they have been acting silly over the pinecone.

The two squirrels become friends and share food for the winter.

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