Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett Activities & Graphic Organizer Book Companion

Make teaching reading skills fun with these engaging and differentiated activities for Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett! This resource includes NO-PREP graphic organizers covering more than 10 different comprehension skills perfect for centers, assessments or sub-planning.

Your students will love digging deeper into the Extra Yarn book while developing their comprehension skills. The activities are open-ended, so they can work at their own level, and you can assess their understanding.

Extra Yarn activities were also created so your students can reflect on how giving without expecting anything in return and that one person can make a positive difference.

This is reinforced further by Extra Yarn read-aloud discussion questions for you to use before, during and after reading the book.

Here’s what you’ll get (find the contents page in the preview!):
Asking Questions
Author’s Purpose
Cause and effect, including games related to the cause and effect in the book.
Character traits and analysis, including anchor chart labels.
Discussion questions as a list, individual cards and sticky notes
Compare & Contrast; including Venn diagrams
Inferring and Predicting; including specific book-related scenarios.
Main Idea and Theme; including examples for the book
Making Connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)
Point of View of characters, author and narrator
Problem and Solution
Retelling & Sequencing; including visual images
Summarizing
Book-related vocabulary activities
Wring prompts
Book-themed writing paper

Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student pages you need, and you are ready to deliver fun and engaging lessons! All you need to prepare is the book!

These resources are perfect to use for:
reading and writing workshops
guiding reading
literacy centres
substitute plans
small group instruction
independent work

NOTES
This book companion is a supplemental product. You can choose the most relevant pages for your needs and the ability and understanding of your students.
The purple text on the ‘Teacher Notes’ pages is specific to the book. These ideas are my interpretation but will give you a head start.
The questions and activities are opinion based, so there are NO answer keys. The activities were designed to be open-ended for easy differentiation.
Please ask any questions before purchasing.

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