GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS activities and lesson plan ideas

This GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS 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, GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS by James Marshall, 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

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ RETELLING

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ ANALYZING SETTING

☐ ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME, MESSAGE, MORAL

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ QUOTATION MARKS

☐ SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

☐ EXCLAMATION POINTS

☐ VERBS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ RESPECT

☐ COMPASSION

☐ IMPULSE CONTROL

☐ APOLOGIZING

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

In a small village lived a young girl named Goldilocks. Although she looked sweet, she was actually quite naughty. One day, her mother sent her to buy muffins in the next village over. Her mother told her not to go off the path, as there was a family of bears in the forest.

Well, Goldilocks quickly broke her promise and ventured into a house, unknowingly the house of the three bears. She tried their porridges, sat in their rocking chairs, and even laid in their beds!

Once the three bears came home, they quickly noticed something was not right. Their porridge was eaten, chairs were broken, and beds were messy. All of a sudden, they saw feet jumping out of the window! They hoped to never see this young girl again. And- they never did.

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