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JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas
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JUST HELP! activities and lesson plan ideas

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Save yourself time and engage your students with these Just Help! 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, Just Help! by Sonia Sotomayor and Angela Dominguez.


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 Just Help! 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 Just Help! 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 JUST HELP! BOOK COMPANION FOCUSES ON:


◼️READING SKILLS

☐ AUTHOR’S PURPOSE

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS


◼️GRAMMAR

☐ PLURAL NOUNS

☐ POSSESSIVE NOUNS

☐ SUFFIXES

☐ QUOTATION MARKS


◼️SEL

☐ KINDNESS


JUST HELP! SUMMARY

Sonia Sotomayor’s book, Just Help!, is a story about children making their community a better place. Readers will be encouraged to find the small, simple ways they can help others each day.


Each morning, Sonia’s mother asks her what she will do to help that day. Sonia looks up to her mother who is a nurse at the hospital. At school that day, Sonia and her friends were making care packages for soldiers fighting overseas. Everyone brought in items to add to the care packages. Later, she and her friends work together to clean up the park. Each small act of kindness inspired someone else to help in a different way. Brooklyn started a recycling program at school, Jasper donated toys to patients at the children’s hospital, and Maya gave a sweater away to her friend.


At the end of the day, Sonia’s mother asks her what she did to help that day. Sonia thinks back on all the things she and her friends did to help their community. But she also reflects on all of the people that helped her and their community. Sonia Sotomayor’s book is sure to get children inspired to help!

 

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