Book Study: The Teacher from the Black Lagoon

Need a back to school favorite that is easy to click, print and plan for the beginning of the year? This unit is a quick, but thorough beginning of the year book study on mentor text/read aloud The Teacher from the Black Lagoon by Mike Thaler. This unit creates a strong foundation for fundamental reading comprehension and response skills.

Includes 8 ANSWER KEYS to make this an easy quick and print activity to leave for a substitute -or- for advanced readers who are completing an independent book study who are ready for critical and challenging questions.

Featured Pages:

Vocabulary

• 4 Vocabulary Cards
• Vocabulary Worksheet

Retell Cards

• 6 Retell Cards
• Retell Strips for Interactive Journals

Reading Strategy Worksheets

• Story Retell: Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution
• Story Sequencing: Beginning, Middle and End
• Book Summary: Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then
• Central Idea: Identify Central Idea and support with Three Details
• Character Traits: Hubie, looks like, feelings and changes in feelings
• Character Traits: Mrs. Green, looks like, acted like, changes in actions
• What Will Happen Next: Make a Prediction
• Book Review: Favorite Part and Author's Purpose

Bonus Worksheets

• Real or Not Real: Identify sentences from the story as real or fantasy.
• Cause and Effect: Identify Mrs. Green's reactions to the student's actions.

Creative Writing Activities

• Lesson Learned: What lesson does Hubie learn?
• One Scary Teacher: Make your own story about a scary teacher.
• Retell Writing Project (one page easy, one page difficult and four page option)
• Hallway Project: My Teacher is a Monster

Interactive Journals

• First, Next, Then, Last
• Problem and Solution

For Texas Teachers, this resource relates to the following 2019-2020 TEKS:

1.6A (K.5A, 2.6A) Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts with adult assistance.

1.6C (K.5C, 2.6C) Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structures with adult assistance. 

1.6E (K.5E, 2.6E)  Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society with adult assistance.

1.7D (K.6D, 2.7D) Retell texts in ways that maintain meaning. 

1.7E (K.6E, 2.7E) Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as illustrating or writing. 

1.8B (K.7B, 2.8B) Describe the main character(s) and the reason(s) for their actions. 

1.8C (K.7C, 2.8C) Describe plot elements, including the main events, the problem, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently. 

1.9Di (K.8Di, 2.9Di) Recognize the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance.

This resource relates to the following Common Core Standards:

RL.1.2(K.2, 2.2) Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

RL.1.3(K.3, 2.3) Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

RL.1.7(K.7, 2.7) Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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Need an extension activity? Try the vocabulary pages specific to this mentor text in:

Discovering Vocabulary through Read Alouds-Back to School Favorites

Includes vocabulary from:

The Teacher from the Black Lagoon

Miss Nelson is Missing

Chrysanthemum

Wolf!

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