My Mouth Is a Volcano! and Interrupting Chicken Read Aloud (Print and Digital)

• Louis, in My Mouth Is a Volcano!, and Little Red Chicken, in Interrupting Chicken, have a hard time keeping their words from erupting like a volcano.

I have included:

• YouTube links for both books
• classroom book cover with student page and sentence starter for both books

My Mouth Is a Volcano! by Julia Cook

• 14 vocabulary words, focusing on nouns and verbs
• noun and verb sort
• How to Control Your Volcano Mouth poster
• 4 comprehension questions in 2 formats
• beginning, middle, end retell organizer with answers
• sequencing cut and paste (see retell answers)
• student question about what should happen to those who interrupt constantly
• student page with sentence starter and picture box, When I think my words are going to erupt, I will . . .
• 4 classroom rules and 3 consequences, to write
• Canadian and US spelling

Interrupting Chicken by David Erza Stein

• good manners sorting activity
• retell answers
• cut and paste sequencing (see retell answers)
• part I like/did not like and why with picture box
• 8-word cards for matching (print 2 copies of each) or oral retell
• K or Grade 1 sentence starter, I am NOT an interrupting chicken when I . . .
• bar or pictograph activity to record your “interrupting chickens” results (includes 16 colourful, paper chickens for a visual class graph, using your pocket chart)
• story map for both books (characters, setting, problem, solution)
• what should Papa do when Little Red Chicken interrupts again?, with picture box and sentence starter

Thanks for stopping by. I welcome your feedback. Happy Back to School!

Revised January 2, 2023.