Eraser activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Eraser Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Anna Kang's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: 

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ making predictions

☐ summarizing and retelling

☐ analyzing character

☐ identifying genre

☐ sequencing

☐ identifying the theme, message or moral

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ problem-solving

☐ taking ownership

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ multiple meaning words

☐ interjections

☐ punctuation

☐ time order words

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: 

Everyone is jealous of pencil, especially Eraser. Pencil and his friends are thought of as the cool and creative ones. Eraser looks up to all the other supplies for the exciting things they can do: glue brings people together and paper makes people feel like they can do anything. The other supplies tease Eraser by saying she is only good for cleaning up their mess. Eraser decides she is meant for something more and leaves the group.

She finds herself in a recycle bin with the first drafts of paper. They are so excited to see her and explain are big fans. Eraser learns that she is the reason people get second chances because she helps people fix their mistakes. When Eraser heads back to the team she finds they are really struggling. Thankfully she is able to help them fix the mistakes and they finish the science project as a team.

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