MUNCHA! MUNCHA! MUNCHA! activities and lesson plan ideas

This MUNCHA! MUNCHA! MUNCHA! 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, MUNCHA! MUNCHA! MUNCHA! by Candace Fleming, 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

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ SUMMARIZING / RETELLING

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ MULTIPLE MEANING WORDS

☐ VERB TENSE

☐ PREPOSITIONS

☐ ANTONYMS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ GOAL SETTING

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Mr. McGreely had dreamed of planting a vegetable garden for many years. He looked forward to getting his hands dirty, and growing yummy vegetables he could eat. Although it took him a long time before actually planting the garden, he finally got started.

One morning when Mr. McGreely went outside to check on his sprouts, he found that some bunnies had nibbled on them! Feeling angry, Mr. McGreely decided to build a small wire fence to keep the bunnies out of his garden. However, that night, the bunnies were able to hop over the fence and get to his vegetables. When Mr. McGreely saw the nibbled leaves the next morning, he decided to build and even taller, wood fence. Unfortunately the bunnies were able to get past the fence and eat the vegetables. Mr. McGreely was furious! He built an enormous stone wall with a door and lock. The bunnies were not able to get past it!

The next morning, Mr. McGreely went into the garden to collect his vegetables. He was surprised to find the bunnies had hopped into the basket he carried and made their way into the garden! The group sat down to munch on the vegetables together.

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