The Rabbit Listened activities and lesson plan ideas
Our The Rabbit Listened Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Cori Doerrfeld's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.
THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:
◼️ READING STRATEGIES
☐ summarize / retell
☐ comparing and contrasting
☐ analyzing character
☐ making connections
☐ plot | problem - solution
☐ identifying theme | message | moral
◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ feelings
☐ compassion
◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
☐ adjectives
☐ action verbs
☐ onomatopoeia
SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:
One day, Taylor decides to build a tower with her blocks. It turns out amazing and she is proud of her work when suddenly her tower is knocked down. First, a chicken comes to see Taylor and suggests that she talk about it, but Taylor doesn’t want to so the chicken leaves. More animals come to visit Taylor and they all have a suggestion for her. When Taylor does not want to try their suggestions, the animals leave.
Finally, a rabbit comes along and sits quietly next to Taylor. The two sit in silence until Taylor asks the rabbit to stay with her. Eventually, Taylor starts talking, then laughing, and using all of the previous suggestions. She decides she is going to rebuild the tower and that it will be amazing.
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