Snowflake Bentley Book Companion Activities with Book Review Pennant

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

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