BIRD HUGS activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
This BIRD HUGS 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, BIRD HUGS by Ged Adamson, 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
☐ PREDICTIONS
☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER
☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS
☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION
☐ SEQUENCING
☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL
◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
☐ ACTION VERBS
☐ SUFFIXES
☐ TIME ORDER WORDS
☐ ONOMATOPOEIA
◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ FRIENDSHIP
☐ FEELINGS
SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
Bernard the bird was different from his friends that were birds. He had very long wings. When all of his friends started learning to fly, Bernard had a hard time. He couldn’t seem to figure it out like the other birds. Soon, all of his friends had left in search of new places and Bernard still could not fly.
Not ready to give up, Bernard tried to solve his problem. He tried changing his wings, making them smaller and even asked another animal for help. Unfortunately, nothing worked and Bernard felt useless. He was so upset he went off into a lonely tree for a long time. Then one day Bernard heard someone else crying. He left his tree to find a very upset orangutan. Bernard walked over and gave the orangutan a hug. Soon enough, the orangutan felt better and Bernard was hopeful. The next morning, there was a line of animals at the bottom of Bernard’s tree. They all wanted hugs from him! The animals started sharing their problems with Bernard and he listened to them and gave hugs. It made Bernard feel good to help the animals and he made many new friends.
Bernard learned that although he could not fly, he still had a purpose. By helping others he could make friends, and when he had friends, he could do anything.
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