LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
Clutter Free Classroom Store

LITTLE BLUE TRUCK activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

Regular price $5.00 $0.00 Unit price per

This LITTLE BLUE TRUCK 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, LITTLE BLUE TRUCK by Alice Schertle, 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 INFERENCES

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ NOUNS 

☐ ACTION VERBS 

☐ ADJECTIVES 

☐ ONOMATOPOEIA

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ FRIENDSHIP

☐ KINDNESS

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Little Blue Truck had a horn that was one of the friendliest sounds you could hear. As he drove down the road he honked his horn at all the animals he would pass. Big Green Toad, Sheep, and Cow all said hello back.

When the Dump came driving along the road, he didn’t beep his horn hello to anyone. He thought he had too many important things to do! Suddenly, the Dump swerved to get out of the way of a puddle and he found himself stuck in the mud. He beeped and cried for help but nobody came.

Soon Little Blue Truck came to help, but found himself stuck too! When Little Blue Truck called for help, all of the animals came running. Together, they all pushed and pushed until the trucks came free. The Dump realized when you have friends you are there to help one another.

 

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