MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
This MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD 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, MILO IMAGINES THE WORLD by Matt de la Peña, 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
☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER
☐ VISUALIZING
☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS
◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
☐ ACTION VERBS
☐ ADJECTIVES
☐ ONOMATOPOEIA
◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ MANAGING STRESS AND ANXIETY
☐ JUDGEMENTS
SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
The story Milo Imagines the World is about a boy named Milo who is traveling on a subway with his sister. Milo and his sister are both experiencing a lot of emotions and feel like shook-up sodas. In order to manage his feelings, Milo begins to draw pictures of the lives he imagines the different people on the subway live.
Milo sees many different people like the whiskered man, a boy in a suit, a woman in a wedding dress, and break dancers. He imagines what each of their lives are like while they travel on the subway.
When Milo and his sister get to their destination, he sees people from the subway in line with them at the metal detectors. Milo realizes that you can’t judge people based on their faces.
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