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| Big AL - Book Companion |
Teach Friendship and Awareness of Differences. This is a book companion for Big AL by Andrew Clements. Big Al is a great read-aloud, and your students will love writing about this book with these reading response graphic organizers. These pages reinforce story elements and essential reading strategies. You can quickly diversify instruction with this teaching resource.
This book companion is to be used with the book.
Big Al, by Andrew Clements
Focus skills are:
- Story summary graphic organizer.
- Teaching summary words, someone, wanted, but, so, then.
- Theme - story about friendship - How am I a good friend?
- Beginning - End
- Comprehension Questions
- Problem - Solution
- My favorite part of the story
- writing sentences about Big Al
- making new words
- writing rhyming words
- roll & read rhyming words
- Illustrate Big Al and all the little fish he saved
- Writing a poem about Big Al
There are 18 total pages for your students and two teacher resource pages for teaching with this book. The pages are sorted into pages for beginning writers and for more experienced writers. Choose the pages that are best for your students. These pages can help students retell the story at home, which improves reading achievement.
This book can be a springboard to teaching life lessons through good literature. The characters show us essential life lessons.
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