COZY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This COZY 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, COZY by Jan Brett, 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

☐ SUMMARIZE / RETELL, 

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER, 

☐ ANALYZING SETTING, 

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION, 

☐ SEQUENCING 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ ADJECTIVES 

☐ ADVERBS 

☐ PREPOSITIONS PREFIXES

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ SHARING

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Jan Brett’s winter book, Cozy, tells the story of a musk ox living in the tundra. Cozy got his name because of his thick, warm, and silky coat. At the start of winter, Cozy had been separated from his family and would be spending the cold winter alone. 

As the storms rolled into, a family of lemmings decided to take shelter under Cozy’s coat. He didn’t mind, in fact, he enjoyed the company. When other small animals approached looking for a warm place to stay, Cozy welcomed them. By the end of the winter, the family of lemmings, Snowshoe Hare, a snowy owl, Arctic Fox, a wolverine, a team of huskies and a musher were sharing the warm space under Cozy’s thick coat. Each time a new animal joined the group, Cozy made sure they were aware of the house rules. 

 The animals started to get restless as spring grew closer, and Cozy began to shed his coat. When the animals finally left to return to their spring homes, Cozy was able to finally move about freely. As he started to run and jump around the tundra, he finally found his herd.

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