Hairy Maclary Book Series English Language Arts Bundle.

Hairy Maclary Book Series English Language Arts Bundle: Characters Traits, Story Retelling, Plot, Vocabulary PLUS Bundle Bonus Activities.

Not only will your students LOVE these delightful stories, they'll also have fun with these follow-up activities targeting English Language Arts, Comprehension, Literacy and Art.

This bundle includes ready to go literacy and art activities for a variety of levels from Kinder to Grade 3 so you can use one wonderful book series across many classes.

The Hairy Maclary book series uses language features such as: rhyme, repetition, consonance, alliteration, simile and onomatopoeia to convey meaning and engage readers.

Hairy Maclary is the hero of a series of children's picture books created by the New Zealand author Dame Lynley Dodd. Each story features the intrepid little terrier and his friends, all have rhyming names.

“Schnitzel von Krumm with a very low tum, Bitzer Maloney all skinny and bony, Muffin McClay like a bundle of hay, Bottomley Potts covered in spots, Hercules Morse as big as a horse and Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy”

My products are designed in a clear, uncluttered format utilizing graphic organizers.

They are simple to read and are printer/ink friendly.

They are ready to print and go.

Fonts included:

• USA: Simple Print in US Letter size (US spelling),
• Qld Beginners in A4 size (UK spelling).
• NSW Print in A4 size (UK spelling).
• Victorian print in A4 size (UK spelling).
• UK: Sassoon Primary Font in A4 size (UK spelling).

For a more detailed description of each product, click on each product cover above for individual contents and previews.

The Bundle Bonus activities include:

• 3 x sentence transformations.
• 2 x labelling activities (2 color 2 B/W).
• KWL chart (1 learned/ 1 learnt).
• Word search with answer sheet
• Adjectives and verbs for characters.
• cut and match rhyming words.
• Cut and sort size order.
• Black Line templates of characters for art.

Beginning Middle End

Identifying the most important event from the beginning, middle and end of the story helps a reader understand how organization, sequence, and plot make a good story. This can then be applied to their own writing. Teaching students to retell occurrences in a story helps them become more accurate in summarizing and monitoring their understanding.

Story elements

A graphic organizer, such as a story map, can help students visually organize a story's elements, increasing their ability to retell, summarize, and comprehend the story.

Sentence transformations

This activity gives students practice with sentence structure (Syntax). Transforming words that are out of order forces students to think about each word in a sentence rather than only memorizing an entire phrase without understanding the importance of structure.

Writing prompts

Making connections is thinking about the text in relation to ourselves, other texts, and the world. Making connections provides the basis for learning, as students connect new information with their own experiences. This develops fluency with their comprehension skills.

Character traits

Identifying character traits is important for reading comprehension. When students better understand the characters they read about, reading becomes more fun. Graphic organizers are an effective tool for helping students learn about and analyze characters in a text.

Identifying rhyming words

Rhyming is a basic phonological awareness skill that develops a beginning understanding of the way sounds work within words. When students learn rhyming words, they are developing the ability to:

• Break words down into smaller words.
• Learn the rhythm of the written and spoken word.
• Learn word families such as den, ben, ten, men, and pen.
• Increases ability to spell new words.

Literal, Inferential, and Evaluative Question Answering

• Literal questions have responses that are directly stated in the text.
• Inferential questions have responses that are indirectly stated, induced, or require other information.
• Evaluative questions require the reader to formulate a response based on their opinion.

These questions will enhance your students reading comprehension and critical thinking skills as they learn to search for clues and symbolism in the stories they read.