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Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas
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Mother Bruce activities and lesson plan ideas

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Our Mother Bruce Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Ryan T. Higgins' 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

☐ making predictions

☐ making inferences

☐ summarizing and retelling

☐ analyzing character

☐ plot | problem and solution

 

◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ problem-solving

☐ conflict resolution

 

◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ ellipses

☐ capitalization

☐ commas

☐ types of sentences

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

The story Mother Bruce is about a grumpy bear who lives alone in the woods. Bruce is a picky eater, so he does NOT like anything except eggs.

One day, as he is trying out a new recipe, his breakfast suddenly hatches. Bruce becomes the victim of mistaken identity. Now he must figure out what to do with the tiny goslings that call him “Mama”.



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