Earth Day Read Alouds (Miss Fox's Class, Earth Day-Hooray, The Earth Has a Cold)

These 3 eco books, written by Eileen Spinelli, Roxane Marie Galliez, and Stuart J. Murphy (Math Start Series, 3-digit addition), are perfect for Earth Day or Earth Hour.

The Earth Has Caught a Cold adds personification with the Earth taking the form of the woman in red.

I have included:

• YouTube links
• word list with lines for 5 sentences about the 1st story
• suffix ing word list for the 3rd story, with activity
• 12 vocabulary flash cards related to Earth Day
• 3 classroom book covers with sentence starters about helping the earth, for all 3 books
• 2 student pages with sentence starters, for all 3 books
• 3 comprehension questions in 2 formats, for all 3 books
• sequencing cut and paste, with answers, for the first two books
• features of a poster, checklist, and rubric
• make a poster about the benefits of going green, keeping the earth healthy, or a green school event
• Earth Day research template
• acrostic poem templates, differentiated
• reduce, reuse, recycle flip template (fold in half on the solid line, cut along the dashed lines, write inside with bullets)
• Recycle or Toss? template to draw or cut and paste pictures into a red (paper), blue (containers), or garbage bin, based on Ontario's recycling program
• weekly or monthly garbage audit (items in the correct bins), with three reflection questions and a poster or announcement activity
• bingo words, differentiated, related to Earth Day
• writing template with idea box for their own story
• Canadian and US spelling
• Eco websites, including Earth Hour

Thanks for stopping by. I welcome your feedback. Happy Earth Day! Updated Nov. 7.

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