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ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
ROCKET WRITES A STORY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas
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 This ROCKET WRITES A STORY 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, ROCKET WRITES A STORY by Tad Hills, 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

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ SUMMARIZE / RETELL

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ TYPES OF SENTENCES

☐ QUOTATION MARKS

☐ ARTICLES

☐ CONJUNCTIONS

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ PERSEVERANCE

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Rocket is a dog that loves reading. His teacher, the yellow bird, reads them books at school. Rocket has also been collecting new words. When he finds a new word, he brings it back to class, writes it down and adds it to their collection.

One day, Rocket decides he is going to write a story with all the new words he has learned. However, when it comes time to write, he doesn’t know what to write about. With his teacher's suggestion, Rocket takes a walk looking for inspiration. On his walk, Rocket smells pine needles and feathers. This inspires him to write about the nest he saw in a tree.

As Rocket works on his story, he meets the owl that lives in the tree. She does not come down to listen to his story, instead listens from the tree. As Rocket adds to his story, he reads it to the owl. Overtime, she moves down the tree branch by branch. Once the story is finally finished, the owl comes and sits next to Rocket for the first time. His story ends up being about her, and how she was brave enough to come and sit next to him. The owl loves the story and the two are happy to have one another as friends. 

This is a great story to get students excited about writing and discuss the challenges that come with the writing process!

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