This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon by Gerald McDermott.
With 34 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, practice plotting story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!
Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.
This Resource Includes:
- Elements of a Trickster Tale Anchor Chart or Notes Handout
- Making Predictions
- Elements of a Trickster Tale
- Trickster Tale Tidbits
- Story Elements
- Sequencing
- Recalling Events in Chronological Order
- Summary
- Story Event Sort
- Making Inferences
- Making Connections
- Author’s Message
- Character Inside & Out (Jabuti)
- Character Inside & Out (Vulture)
- Character Feelings (Jabuti)
- Character Feelings (Vulture)
- Character Development (Jabuti)
- Character Development (Vulture)
- Character Change (Jabuti)
- Character Change (Vulture)
- Sketch a Scene From the Story
- Setting Influences the Plot
- Setting the Scene
- Theme
- Thinking About the Text
- Compare & Contrast
- Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
- Antonyms All-Around
- Wait… There’s More!
- Book Review
- Write an Origin Story (includes: My Trickster Tale Planning Sheet, My Trickster Tale Cover, 3 different layouts of lined paper)
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