Chicks and Salsa Lesson Plan, Book Companion, and Craft
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Description
Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds is a perfect read aloud for your hungry readers! Designed for primary students, this comprehensive lesson plan is full of engaging opportunities for sequencing story events and retelling. This resource is loaded with options to customize for the perfect-fit lesson for your students. A wide variety of book companion activities (including differentiated nonfiction and craft) can be done at a time that works best for your class!
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to retell Chicks and Salsa by sequencing key events.
Several options are included, allowing students to sequence story events:
- text dependent questions
- Beginning, Middle, and End graphic organizer to sequence key events (space for sketching and labeling)
- Sequencing organizer to identify and sequence key events in more detail
- These graphic organizers include printable parts to make a large anchor chart to complete whole group for younger readers and writers
- Hands-on retelling: story event cards (multiple versions: words only, words with pictures, pictures only) for students sequence and practice orally retelling after reading text or during learning centers. All in color and black/white.
- Cut and paste picture Sequencing (4, 5, and 6 event)
- Transition words and story elements cards
- Four differentiated assessment options for written retelling (rubric included)
At the end of the lesson, students will answer the following question independently: Think: What happened when the chickens got tired of eating chicken feed? Write: Retell the story from beginning to end. Include key events in Chicks and Salsa.
**Be sure to check out the preview of this lesson for a more in-depth look, including differentiated options for YOUR students!**
For the lesson, teacher resources include:
- teacher guide with skill rationale/teacher language,
- lesson plan with stopping points,
- text-dependent questions (and scaffolding questions for each),
- expected student responses,
- post-its to print questions and place in book for easy reference during the lesson,
- large printable form of the essential question, student friendly objective, and questions to post for visual learners
There are tons of extras and extensions to be used after the lesson for more fun and learning!
- Vocabulary word cards - 5 from the story and 4 blank cards
- Infer vocabulary meaning and context clues graphic organizer
- Vocabulary activity options
- Photographs representing each vocabulary word
- Multiple Choice Quiz
- Write and illustrate (what happened when the rooster watched the cookie show). Two line styles included.
- Identify animals that lived at Nuthatcher farm
- Answer WH? questions about key details in the text by cutting/ pasting pictures.
- Cause and Effect, 2 versions
- Sort character traits/describing words about the rooster
- Reading Comprehension cut and paste
- “Write the Room” with 8 picture/word cards from the story and three recording sheets.
- Count syllables of words from the story.
- Make new words using letters in "Nuthatcher".
- Unscramble sentences from the story. Read the sentence, build, and write.
- Sort short i words
- Make text-to-self connections with story events. Two options included.
- Opinion writing: Explain why the mice were or were not important characters. Two line styles included.
- Write and illustrate in response to the prompt: “If I got to cook with the rooster...”. Two line styles included.
- Read a nonfiction passage titled, All About Tortillas as a nonfiction connection to the story and answer comprehension questions. Three differentiated levels included.
- Chicks and Salsa Name Craft/Writing Craft
Thank you for checking out this lesson plan! Please let me know if you have any questions before purchasing.
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