The Smart Cookie Read Aloud Extension Activities - PRINTABLES ONLY

The newest Food Group series book is out by Jory John and Pete Oswald! These activities focus on retelling, character traits/feelings, text-to-self connections and showing understanding of this adorable text!

Skills practiced in this resource:

• sequencing the order of events
• summarizing (someone, wanted, but, so)
• character traits
• author's purpose
• writing a review of text
  

See more activities in the DIGITAL & PRINTABLE BUNDLE!

PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES

CRAFTS

• CHOOSE from multiple options of Smart Cookie crafts!

BULLETIN BOARD/ANCHOR CHART

• Bulletin Board Title - "We're ALL Smart Cookies!" (quote from story)
• Mini Cookies - Have students decorate with their name or with ways they can show their smart.

CHARACTER TRAITS

• Anchor Chart Headers + 8 Cookie Emotion Cards to use during the story with sentence stems: Cookie feels ____ because ______. (color and b/w)
• Feelings of Smart Cookie - Describe when Cookie had specific emotions in the story
• Text-to-Self: My Cookie Connections - Craftivity for students to tell about a time that they felt frustrated and a time they felt like a smart cookie.

RETELL

• Cookie Themed Flip Book - Choose from "somebody, wanted, but, so" or "first, next, then, last"
• Retell Cookie Jar
• Book Review

WRITING ACTIVITIES

• Cookie Jar Brainstorm - "I feel smart when.."
• Writing page - pair with Smart Cookie Craft for a great bulletin board!

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