Children's Stories for the Holiday Season

 

Bear Stays Up for Christmas, book companion
Bear Stays Up for Christmas, by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman. Book Companion to write about your reading. In this story, the forest animals tell Bear he must stay up for Christmas. Bear is sleepy but he says he will try. Read this book to discover how Bear finds the best gift for Christmas.

This book teaches the life lesson of being kind to your friends and the gift of giving.

This book is entertaining and these reader response pages can help young readers write about books and stories. There are pages for beginning writers as well as more challenging pages for those writers who need the challenge.  Find a book companion for this book HERE








Trouble with Trolls, book companion
Reader Response pages for the wonderful book, Trouble with Trolls, by Jan Brett. This book is truly a wonderful book to read aloud. Teach story elements and character traits, new vocabulary and word study. 33 pages to use with this picture book. These pages can easily be assigned for distance learning and school at home.

Reader Response Pages Include:

  • Comprehension Questions
  • Vocabulary Word Cards
  • Writing about Trolls
  • Finding evidence in the story about character actions and traits
  • Drawing the story characters, Treva, Tuffi and the Trolls
  • Make a sequencing booklet to order story events
  • retell the story
  • Study root words and endings, ABC order
  • Illustrate the wonderful characters in the book
  • make beautiful borders 'just like Jan Brett'
  • complete a T-map about Trolls - "can, have, are"
  • 30 word cards for your pocket chart
  • Tips for teaching, introduce the book and ideas for this book

Find the book companion for Trouble with Trolls HERE

Legend of the Poinsettia

The Legend of the Poinsettia retold by Tomie dePaola is a fabulous book to read aloud when teaching the genre of legends and the value of giving. Enhance the reading experience and provide writing prompts and pages to write about reading. These pages can easily be assigned for distance learning and school at home. Teaching literacy and life lessons with children's literature.

Focus skills included are:

• writing prompts

• comprehension questions

• theme [giving]

• character illustration

• beginning, middle, end

• before and after

• favorite part

• what is the lesson of the story?

• word study pages

• compare and contrast

• retelling the story

• word study and vocabulary

Do you want the book companion for this book?  Click HERE