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The Day The Crayons Quit Book Companion - Activities

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Description

The Day The Crayons Quit is a great book to share with your students to talk about respecting the feelings of others and that we all have different perspectives. It's also a fun book to share on National Crayon Day, which is March 31st.

This updated book companion has activities promoting big ideas, themes, and concepts. There are opportunities for students to question the author, analyze the author's and illustrator's craft, and make connections to self and the real world.

USE THIS BOOK COMPANION FOR:

✏️Book Clubs

✏️Literature Circles

✏️Centers

✏️Early Finishers

✏️Sub Plans

✏️Whole Group

✏️Morning Meeting

WHY DO I NEED THIS?

✅Promotes critical and creative thinking

✅Teaches students to analyze and interpret literature

✅Develops skills in comprehension, vocabulary, and writing

✅Teaches literacy skills

➡️Be sure to check out the PREVIEW to see more of what's included.

THIS GUIDE INCLUDES:

  • A pre-reading wondering about the book activity
  • Making predictions activity using the cover of the book
  • Comprehension questions
  • Story Map
  • Activity to examine important events in the story
  • Examining cause and effect
  • Several activities to summarize the story
  • A sequencing activity
  • Identifying the themes in the story activity
  • Character map – 2 versions to differentiate
  • Challenge vocabulary cards with matching definitions
  • 30 Comprehension Questions
  • Story Map - 2 versions
  • 5 W’s and H
  • Activities and Graphic Organizers for Important Events, Summarization, Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Fact or Opinion
  • Themes and Big Idea Word Lists and Graphic Organizers
  • Character Traits Word Lists, Graphic Organizers
  • How Duncan Changed activity
  • 6 Writing Activities
  • A book review
  • Writing a letter to the crayons - letter writing lesson and activity
  • My Favorite Color is - opinion writing lesson and activity
  • Feelings Activity
  • Syllable Sort
  • Parts of Speech Sort
  • Compound Words matching

⭐With so many activities, you can pick and choose the ones that best suit the needs of your students.

*** The original files are also included in this download.

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Total Pages
75 pages
Answer Key
N/A
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

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