Night Tree Book Companion with Book Review Pennant

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

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