ZOG activities and lesson plan ideas

This ZOG 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, ZOG by Julia Donaldson, 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

☐ RETELLING

☐ SEQUENCING

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ QUOTATION MARKS

☐ EXCLAMATION POINT

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ RESILIENCE

☐ COMPASSION

☐ INDIVIDUALITY

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

Madam Dragon led a dragon school. ZOG was a dragon who wanted to win a Golden Star. Each year there were different focuses, and each time, ZOG had an accident. Each time he failed, somehow there was a young woman who was there to patch him up. When he fell while flying, she plastered his nose. When his voice was hoarse, she gave him a soothing peppermint.

One year, the dragons were learning to capture a princess. ZOG was not able to, until the young woman reveals herself as a princess herself! She helped all the dragons in the class. That is, until a knight came to rescue her.

The young woman shared that she wanted to be a doctor, not a princess. The knight agreed to assist her, and the dragons offered to fly them as needed. They all lived happily ever after!

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