February Read Aloud Books and Activities Valentines Day Groundhog Day Presidents

Description

Reading response activities and book-based crafts for the month of February! Includes comprehension and writing activities for 11 popular books to cover Groundhog’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Presidents’ Day, Black History, Teeth, and Chinese New Year.

*Meets many common core standards!

*Many activities are differentiated!

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Included are:

*Groundhog’s Day Off* by Robb Pearlman

-Cause and Effect

-Making Connections

*Groundhog’s Runaway Shadow* by David Biedrzycki

-Story Elements: characters, setting, problem, solution

-Nonfiction Reading Passages

-Shadows

-Class graph

*Ruby’s Chinese New Year* by Vickie Lee

-Key details- answering questions

-Making Connections

-Zodiac Posters

-Chinese lantern craft

*Presidents’ Day* by Anne Rockwell

-President timeline

-True/False cards (story comprehension)

-Compare/ contrast reading passages

-If I Were President with mini-book

*Bear’s Loose Tooth* by Karma Wilson

-Vocabulary

-Story Elements

-Making Connections

-Lost Tooth pocket chart

*What if You Had Animal Teeth?* by Sandra Markle

-Making Inferences

-Compare/ Contrast

-Writing craft

*I Am Jackie Robinson* by Brad Meltzer

-Character traits

-Making connections

-BONUS character traits craft: to use with any influential African American.

*The Invisible String* by Patrice Karst

-Making Connections

-Affirmations

-Directed drawing and writing activity

*There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Rose* by Lucille Colandro

-Sequencing activity

-Valentine’s Day foldable cards

-Picture word bank and writing activity

*Happy Valentine’s Day, Mouse* by Laura Numeroff

-Sequencing activity

-Valentine’s Day punny notes from teacher

-Valentine tags for mailbox (bag)

*Love Monster* by Rachel Bright

-Sequencing activity

-Beginning, middle, end craft

-Monster craft

-Descriptive writing- adjectives and writing templates

*BONUS* Reading Response Journal!

Students can draw or write about their favorite part of each book. Use the cover and staple into booklets to send home at the end of the month!

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