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PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas
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PICTURE DAY JITTERS activities and lesson plan ideas

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Save yourself time and engage your students with these Picture Day Jitters 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, Picture Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg.


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 Picture Day Jitters 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 Picture Day Jitters 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 PICTURE DAY JITTERS BOOK COMPANION FOCUSES ON:


◼️READING SKILLS

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ POINT OF VIEW


◼️GRAMMAR

☐ COMMON AND PROPER NOUNS

☐ PRONOUNS

☐ QUOTATION MARKS


◼️SEL

☐ INDIVIDUALITY

☐ PATIENCE


PICTURE DAY JITTERS SUMMARY

Mrs. Hartwell’s class is getting ready for picture day in the story Picture Day Jitters. The students come in wearing their best outfits and Mrs. Hartwell tells them that their class picture time is at the very end of the day. Throughout the day Mrs. Hartwell does everything she can to keep the kids from getting messy, and cleans up the messes they make. When it is time for their class picture, the students take the perfect picture that represents who they are as a class.

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