THE LITTLE RED FORT activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This THE LITTLE RED FORT 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 LITTLE RED FORT by Brenda Maier, 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

☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS

☐ RHYME, RHYTHM, and REPETITION

☐ IDENTIFYING MESSAGE OR MORAL

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ APOSTROPHE

☐ QUOTATION MARK

☐ BOLD PRINT

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ FORGIVENESS

☐ GOAL SETTING

☐ TEASING

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Inspired by the classic folktale, The Little Red Hen, this story is about the determination of a girl named Ruby. Ruby found spare boards and wanted to build a fort. Each step, she asked for help from her brothers. However, they repeatedly said they were too busy and could not assist her. They even made fun of her saying she could not draw plans, gather materials, cut the boards, or hammer the nails!

After late nights and hard work, Ruby finally created her very own fort. She proved all of her brothers wrong! When it was done, the boys wanted to play. Ruby reminded them that they were too busy to help build, and that they teased her, so she was going to play all by herself. With a little help and creativity, the boys showed their support and the story ended with a fort-warming party where all were invited.

This beautiful, rhythmic story shows the importance of creativity and resiliency, as well as teasing and forgiveness. Join Ruby on her journey to create her own fort!

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