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THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas
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THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF activities and lesson plan ideas

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This THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF 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, THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF by B.G. Hennessy, 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

☐ AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

☐ CAUSE AND EFFECT

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ SEQUENCING

 

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ VERB TENSE

☐ QUOTATION MARKS

☐ TYPES OF SENTENCES

☐ SYNONYMS

 

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ HONESTY

 

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

B.G. Hennessy’s fable, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, is about a young shepherd boy. The boy spends his days alone in the pasture with his sheep and is starting to get bored. While he tries to teach the sheep new tricks, they aren’t interested. The boy decides he needs some excitement out on the pasture. He decides to run into town shouting, “Wolf!”

To the shepherd boy’s delight, all the townsfolk come running to help him and to protect the sheep. However, when they get there, the townsfolk find there is no wolf to be found. The boy is pleased that one of his friends spends the rest of the day in the pasture with him, just in case the wolf returns.

The next day, the boy is feeling bored again and decides to run back into town crying, “Wolf!” Just like the day before, everyone comes running, but there is no wolf. This time his friend stays but to see if there actually was a wolf.

On the third day, the shepherd boy is alone in the pasture when he hears growling. He finds that there are three large wolves standing at the edge of the pasture. He runs into town crying, “Wolf!”, but no one comes to help. He is left to spend the afternoon looking for his sheep all alone.

This classic fable teaches the importance of honesty and the implications of lying and playing tricks.

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