Shoes From Grandpa Activity Pack

SHOES FROM GRANDPA ACTIVITY PACK
Activities designed to compliment the children’s book ‘Shoes from Grandpa’ by Mem Fox.

This recourse has been created as an activity pack to facilitate a variety of different learning opportunities to develop vocabulary, phonetics, fine motor, creative thinking, writing, and language skills.

Activities included in the pack and how they were created to be used: students …

Help Grandpa pack away his clothes – cut and paste items of clothing into grandpa’s wardrobe using dice with a bonus mathematics skill (subitizing).
Write the words – use phonetic awareness and skills to spell the different items of clothing in the book.
Book review – reflect on the book by drawing or writing about their favourite part in the book and use a smiley scale to provide a rating.
Sentence strip with frame –trace and fill in the blacks to complete a sentence. Draw a picture of Jesse wearing grandpas clothing.
Word search – find the words in boxes.
Bingo –students listen for the words when the book is read out loud.

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