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HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas
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HERE WE ARE activities and lesson plan ideas

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 Save yourself time and engage your students with these Here We Are activities. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go!


Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers.


TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!


  1. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.
  2. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for each.
  3. We wrote 30 book-based writing prompts (that cover 10 genres of writing).
  4. We identified an SEL focus / character education topic based on events in the story.
  5. We constructed strategy-based reading comprehension questions and created no-prep, print-and-go reader response worksheets.


YOU ONLY NEED TO DO 3 QUICK & EASY STEPS:


STEP 1: PLAN

Simply customize your Here We Are lesson plans using the ideas in the teaching guide and choose from the 15 standards-based activities.


STEP 2: PREP

Prep can be as simple as printing the activity pages (or assigning the included digital version) and finding a free video of the book being read aloud online.


OPTIONAL: If you want to dive deeper into a book study, you’ll find our teaching ideas and slides make it easy to create mini-lessons, anchor charts, and slideshows.


STEP 3: TEACH

Engage your students with an interactive read aloud by reading or streaming the picture book. Practice reading comprehension strategies with text-based discussion questions. We even wrote the Here We Are comprehension questions for you!


Some teachers like to assemble and assign independent work packets. Others prefer to dive deeper into the story with vocabulary, grammar, SEL, and writing lessons that can span over several days.


The best thing about our 500+ book companions is the flexibility they provide you. We’ve packed them with a variety of teaching ideas and activities so you have the option to use them in the way that works best for you and your students!



THE HERE WE ARE BOOK COMPANION FOCUSES ON:


◼️READING SKILLS

☐ POINT OF VIEW

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

☐ AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS

☐ SEQUENCING


◼️GRAMMAR

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ ADVERBS

☐ PLURAL NOUNS

☐ PRONOUNS


◼️SEL

☐ RESPONSIBILITY


HERE WE ARE SUMMARY

Oliver Jeffers book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is a guide for readers. Written for his son, it’s as if Jeffers is talking directly to readers, teaching them about the different parts of the planet. Jeffers starts off big, discussing outer space and narrows in to teach about the human body.


Not only does Oliver Jeffers teach facts about the planet, he discusses how to be a good citizen on planet earth. The planet is filled with many different people and animals, all of them are different shapes, sizes and colors. It is our job to take care of the earth, because it is the only one we have. At the end, Jeffers reminds readers that they are never alone on earth, so if they need help, all they have to do is ask.

 

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