I'm Not Just a Scribble activities and lesson plan ideas

Our I'm Not Just a Scribble Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Diane Alber's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️ READING STRATEGIES

☐ analyzing character

☐ point of view

☐ analyzing illustrations

☐ making connections

☐ asking and answering questions

☐ author's purpose

☐ rhyme, rhythm and repetition

☐ identifying theme, message or moral

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ advocacy

☐ apologizing

☐ diversity

☐ forgiveness

☐ positive self talk

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ nouns

☐ action verbs

☐ adjectives

☐ quotation marks

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The story I’m Not Just a Scribble… is about a Scribble who looks a little bit different than the other pictures, but knows that he special.

Throughout the story, Scribble goes to different pictures and asks if he can play with them. The pictures say no and point out that scribble looks different than them and is more messy and colorful. Scribble stays true to himself and does not let them get him down.

At the end of the story, the other pictures apologize the Scribble and ask him to play with them. The pictures create a big, beautiful picture because they are all working together.

Students will love this story about diversity and staying true to oneself.

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