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
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
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
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