Meerkat Mayhem Book Study and Craft Ideas

Dive into the exciting world of meerkats with this engaging Meerkat Mayhem interactive learning pack! Perfect for elementary/primary students, this resource combines fun and education, helping learners build essential skills while exploring the lives of these fascinating creatures.

Pre Reading Tasks

• Predictions from the cover

• Predict what will happen after two pages

• Interactive Flap page for recording predictions

Vocabulary Tasks

• Alphabet Key

• Word Wall

• Is-have-can for a sloth

• Words to describe the characters

Summary

• Important facts

• Beginning. Middle, End with two options

• Somebody, wanted, but, so, then

• First, next, then, after that, last or finally

• Recount

• Main Idea and sub points

Rubrics and planners

• Support to write an Informational Text

• Use these planners and rubrics to write about Meerkats.

• 4 choices of paper to write on

Print and go section

• Record words to describe a meerkat

• Compare two characters

• I see, I think, I wonder

• Problem and solutions

• Plus, minus, and interesting parts

• Text to Text, Self, World

• Interview questions

• Design a new cover

• Author’s Purpose

• Write a sequel

• Write a different ending

• Draw and label a Story Map

• Where are the meerkats?

Book Reports

• Fiction Text

Craft Idea

• Make a meerkat

• Make a peeping meerkat

• Paint or colour a meerkat and add worms

Meerkat Facts

• Cards for displaying the vocabulary and facts

Meerkat Photos

• Use these to display for discussion and display

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