The Cool Bean Book Companion Read Aloud Activities and Book Review Pennant

The book The Cool Bean by Jory John is a wonderful story to read aloud with your students this year. If you are reading The Cool Bean with your students this year you will love this picture book companion. It comes with a variety of tools to engage your students and help you maximize teachable moments as you explore this beautiful story.

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

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