CRAZY HAIR DAY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This CRAZY HAIR DAY 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, CRAZY HAIR DAY by Barney Saltzberg, 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

☐ RETELL

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ ASK AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ BASE WORDS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ QUOTATION MARKS 

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ SELF-ESTEEM

☐ TEASING

☐ SENSE OF COMMUNITY

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

There is no better feeling than waking up and knowing it is a special day! Stanley was thrilled to get ready for Crazy Hair Day. His mom put gel in his hair, spiked it, and even dyed it blue and orange. When Stanley walked into school, he quickly realized that Crazy Hair Day was next week. Even worse… today was Class Picture Day! Running and hiding in the bathroom, Stanley (with the help of his friends) gets the courage to join his class for the picture. 

This story can facilitate lessons in friendship, teasing, and the importance of a sense of community. Join Stanley and his classmates on an adventure they will never forget!

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