Elmer Activities - Reading Comprehension and Literacy Skills Activities

Teach multiple literacy skills with the Elmer book by David McKee. These comprehensive Elmer activities reinforce reading comprehension skills and are ideal for elementary teachers who incorporate picture books into their reading lessons.

With these Elmer activities, your students will engage in:

• active and meaningful discussions
• challenging but achievable activities suitable for different abilities
• making connections with their own experiences
• playing cut-and-stick activities and games

Find everything you need in this time-saving literacy resource full of Elmer printables.

SKILLS TARGETED 
The Elmer activities include NO-PREP literacy graphic organizers covering different reading comprehension skills:

• Cause and effect in Elmer
• Character traits in Elmer
• Read-aloud questions are organized chronologically and by different reading skills.
• Inferring and predicting activities
• Main idea and theme with specific examples related to Elmer
• Making connections, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
• Point of view activities
• Problem and solution activities
• Elmer sequencing and retelling activities have text and visual images, including black and white and coloured versions.

CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW IMAGES FOR ACTIVITY PHOTOS AND CONTENTS PAGE

These literacy skills are reinforced further with Elmer read-aloud questions for you to use before, during, and after reading the book.

DIFFERENTIATION

• Elmer worksheets and questions are opinion-based and open-ended, allowing for easy differentiation.
• Each comprehension skill has activities with different difficulty levels, so all you have to do is choose the best pages for your student’s needs.
• Many of the Elmer activities have boxes your students can respond to with text or illustrations.

OVERVIEW

• This is a supplemental product. You can choose the most relevant pages for your needs and your student’s abilities and understanding.
• Prep is quick and easy. Just print the pages you need!
• All you need to prepare is the book or story.
• Elmer worksheets feature a clean and straightforward design with images inspired by the book.

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