Pizza A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli 32 Book Extension Activities NO PREP

Are you looking for a fast and simple way to enforce key concepts and help your students to process the story and themes of this book? This book companion resource is just what you need if you are a busy elementary classroom teacher or school library. This products makes for easy sub plans too!

What Can I Do With This Resource?

Use this resource with the book Pizza! A Slice of History written by and illustrated by Greg Pizzoli . This resource invites students to be creative while challenging students to use skills in reading comprehension, story analysis, making predictions, drawing conclusions, and creativity. This can be used to allow a students to look more in depth at a great picture book and read aloud.

Differentiation

With 32 unique activities to use with your elementary students, you will be able to differentiate for every learning ability and elementary grade level. You will be able to keep your students engaged in the book and they will enjoy expanding their learning while completing the activities. You can pick and choose which activities work best for your students and study this book for as little as one class period or as long as a week.

About the Book:

From Geisel Award-winning author Greg Pizzoli comes a hilarious and mouth-watering history of pizza.

Do YOU like PIZZA? Because right now, somewhere in the world, someone is eating it. Did you know that in the United States we eat 350 slices of pizza every second? Or that in Sweden they serve pizza with bananas and peanuts? All over the world, people love pizza—but where did it come from? And who made the first pizza?

Join award-winning author and illustrator Greg Pizzoli as he travels through time and around the globe to discover the mouth-watering history of pizza. Bursting with color, flavor, fun facts, and a family-friendly English muffin pizza recipe, Pizza!: A Slice of History reveals the delicious story of the world's best food.

Activities Included:

•Cover Page / Coloring Sheet

•Cover Story Pre-Reading Activity

•Making Connections Before Reading

•Let’s Take a Picture Walk (2 Activities)

•Story Prediction

•Illustrator’s Extra

•I Wonder… Formulating Questions

•Comprehension Questions and Answer Key

•Compare and Contrast

•Fiction or Nonfiction

•Postcard Design

•Maze

•Making Connections: Text to Self

•Making Connections: Text to Text

•Making Connections: Text to World

•My Favorite Part (3 Options)

•Author’s Purpose

•Ask the Author

•Cover Art (Design a New Book Cover)

•A,B,C’s of Pizza Toppings

•How to Make a Pizza Recipe

•All About Pizza

•Pizza! Pizza!

•How to Draw a Pizza Slice

•3-2-1 Summarizing Activity

•Word Search

•Book Review (3 Options)