THE GREAT EGGSCAPE activities and lesson plan ideas

This THE GREAT EGGSCAPE 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 GREAT EGGSCAPE by Jory John, 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 predictions

☐ summarize / retell

☐ analyzing character

☐ plot | problem - solution

☐ cause and effect

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ interjections

☐ punctuation

☐ homophones

☐ antonyms

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ self-care

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Shel lives in a carton full of other eggs. When you have a lot of roommates, you do not get a lot of alone time. That’s why on the weekends when the other eggs leave the carton to go play, Shel stays home alone from some “me time” while the others go out to play “The Great Eggscape.” This is when they escape into the store on weekends before customers arrive.

While Shel is home relaxing, he realizes it is lunchtime, when the eggs normally return home. As Shel waits for his friends, he starts to worry about them. Meanwhile, his friends have decided to hide throughout the store in hopes that Shel will have to come to find them.

Shel decides to go out in search of his friends. He quickly finds Greg hiding among the pickles. The two decide to go and look for everyone else together. Finally, 10 eggs have been found, leaving only one left, Meg. Some of the eggs decide to go back home, but Shel reminds them they can’t leave without Meg. They start searching the store for her and find a clue! The clue leads the eggs to Meg and the friends reunite. Shel realizes how much fun it was to play with friends and looks forward to doing it again.

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