GOLDY LUCK AND THE THREE PANDAS activities and lesson plan ideas
This GOLDY LUCK AND THE THREE PANDAS 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, GOLDY LUCK AND THE THREE PANDAS by NATASHA YIM, 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
- Sequencing
- Analyze Character
- Figurative Language
- Identifying the Main Idea
GRAMMAR
- Synonyms
- Action Verbs
- Contractions
SEL
- Forgiveness
- Taking Ownership
SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
Chinese New Year has quickly arrived, and young Goldy is awoken to her mom asking for errands. Goldy is to go to her neighbor’s house with turnip cakes and wish the Chen family a Happy New Year.
When she goes over, no one answers the door. Walking in, she trips and drops all of the cakes! Goldy then goes looking for a broom, but she comes upon congee. Being so hungry, she just had to eat some! With a full belly, Goldy needs to rest, but she breaks the rocking chair. Feeling even more exhausted, Goldy goes and lays on a perfectly sized futon.
When the Chen family walk in, they find their home in disarray! Goldy runs out of the house and quickly returns to help clean up the mess.
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