HOW TO CATCH THE TOOTH FAIRY activities and lesson plan ideas

This HOW TO CATCH THE TOOTH FAIRY 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, HOW TO CATCH THE TOOTH FAIRY by Adam Wallace, 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

☐ making connections

☐ point of view

☐ identifying rhyme | rhythm | repetition

☐ summarizing/retelling

☐ visualizing

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ proper nouns

☐ adjectives

☐ punctuation

☐ antonyms

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ courage

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Every night at 3:09, the Tooth Fairy sets out to work. It is her job to fly around collecting teeth. In fact, she collects three hundred thousand teeth each night! However, the Tooth Fairy’s job can be dangerous because children set traps in their room hoping to catch her. Thankfully, she is too quick for most traps!

First, the Tooth Fairy visits Nancy, where she must avoid the drool. Next, she travels to Johnny’s house where she is able to avoid the trap and even hides his socks. At Julie’s house, the Tooth Fairy finds a trap made of floss but it is not enough to catch her. The Tooth Fairy leaves a coin for Julie and flies to Taylor’s house. Here, there is a very impressive trap but the Tooth Fairy is able to get away thanks to her fairy dust. However, a marshmallow catapult leaves the Tooth Fairy with some stuck to her bum! At Sarah’s house there are many traps but the Tooth Fairy is able to avoid them all and heads to her final stop. Sanjeev had a creative trap that almost worked, but the Tooth Fairy was able to get out safely.

Finally, the Tooth Fairy and all of the teeth she collected make it home safely! None of the children were able to trap her just yet; could you?

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