GOODBYE WINTER, HELLO SPRING activities and lesson plan ideas

This GOODBYE WINTER HELLO SPRING 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, GOODBYE WINTER HELLO SPRING by Kenard Pak, 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 ILLUSTRATIONS

☐ ANALYZING SETTING

☐ COMPARING AND CONTRASTING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

☐ VISUALIZING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS

☐ PREPOSITIONS

☐ ANTONYMS

☐ HOMOPHONES

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ MINDFULNESS

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring is a beautifully written book describing the changes that take place as winter turns to spring. It follows a young boy walking outside with his dog. The boy is taking in the setting around him: the snow falling, the wind blowing branches in the trees, and the frozen water in the pond and brook.

Slowly, he starts noticing signs of winter ending and spring beginning. It is getting lighter out earlier and the snow is starting to melt. New leaves are starting to grow on the trees and the animals are coming back out. The sun is much brighter and it is getting warmer outside.

Kenard Pak’s book is the perfect way to discuss the change of seasons with students!

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