This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Cactus Hotel by Brenda Z. Guiberson.
With 19 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 elements of narrative nonfiction texts, sequence story events, compare & contrast, make predictions & connections, infer, 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:
- Making Predictions
- Story Elements
- Sequencing
- Making Inferences
- Making Connections
- Sketch a Scene From the Story
- Setting Influences the Plot
- Animals of the Cactus Hotel
- Animals Depend on the Cactus
- Habitat Homes
- Thinking About the Text
- Before & After
- Wait… There’s More!
- Author’s Message
- Timeline of the Saguaro Cactus’s Life - (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
- Timeline of the Saguaro Cactus’s Life (simplified version) - (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
- Trip to the Sonoran Desert
- Saguaro Cactus Bingo Challenge - (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).
- Text-to-Text Connections
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