Dasher Book Companion with Book Review Pennant

The book Dasher by Matt Tavares is a wonderful story to share with your students this holiday season. This picture book companion comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this text.

Included you will find fun resources that will help you work with your students on making predictions, text structure, setting, main idea, making connections, vocabulary, and more! In addition, you will also receive 12 writing prompts, exit tickets, and a short quiz that include a variety of text-dependent questions and ideas for you and your students to explore.

I have include a wealth of activities for you to choose from. Choose the ones that work best for you and your students!

Use to Teach the Following Concepts

• Making Predictions
• Inferencing
• Main Idea and Details
• Theme
• Sequencing
• Summarizing
• Setting
• Characterization
• Making Connections
• Cause and Effect
• Problem and Solution
• Vocabulary
• AND MORE

Resources and Activities Included

1. Who is Dasher Web
2. Wishing on a Star
3. Compare and Contrast (Dasher and Silverbell)
4. Compare and Contrast (Dasher’s Old Life and Dasher’s New Life)
5. Whose Line Is It? (Dasher or Santa)
6. Reindeer Research Organizer
7. Holiday Haiku
8. My Story Predictions
9. Making Predictions (make predictions based on what has been read so far)
10. Listen and Draw
11. Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, resolution)
12. 2 Story Maps
13. Sequencing (beginning, middle, end)
14. What’s the Story About (main idea and details)
15. List of Picture Book Themes
16. Identifying Theme and Supporting Evidence
17. Dasher (who, what, where, when, why, how)
18. Drawing the Setting
19. Describing the Setting
20. Main Idea and Story Summary
21. A Lot of Character (identifying character traits)
22. Making Connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world)
23. Making Connections (the text says, this reminds me of)
24. Facts and Questions
25. The Best Part
26. Problem Identification and Writing
27. Problem and Solution
28. Sequence of Events (first, next, then, last)
29. Book Summary Writing
30. Book Summary Organizer (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
31. 12 Writing Prompts (4 opinion, 4 narrative, 4 informative)
32. Dasher Themed Writing Paper
33. Straight from the Text
34. 2 Cause and Effect (1 filled in and 1 blank)
35. Character Response
36. Reader’s Response
37. Picture This Vocabulary
38. 4 Word Study Activities
39. Cover Artist (design a new cover for the book)
40. Book Critic (your thoughts on the book)
41. 3 Thoughtful Exit Tickets
42. Dasher Comprehension Questions
43. Book Review Pennant Craft

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