The Sour Grape Lesson, Book Companion, and Craft
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Calling all Jory John fans! "The Sour Grape" is the perfect addition to your SEL instruction while practicing key reading skills! This comprehensive lesson plan is packed full of engaging opportunities to discuss the Sour Grape in-depth while working through a personal journey, thus inferring the theme. This download is loaded with options to customize for the perfect-fit lesson for your class. A wide variety of book companion activities (including a craft) can be done at a time that works best for your students!
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to determine the theme of The Sour Grape by analyzing how the character changes.
Rigorous text dependent questions promote discussion, allowing students to discuss the Sour Grape's thoughts, feelings, and actions throughout story events. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to infer the theme based on how the sour grape changes. Three anchor chart options are included to collect text evidence. At the end of the lesson, students will answer the following question independently: What theme can be inferred from the way the Sour Grape changes from beginning to end? Support your theme with text evidence. Several differentiated assessment options are included.
**Be sure to check out the preview of this lesson for a more in-depth look, including differentiated options for YOUR students!**
For the lesson, teacher resources include:
- teacher guide with skill rationale/teacher language,
- lesson plan with stopping points,
- text-dependent questions (and scaffolding questions for each),
- expected student responses,
- post-its to print questions and place in book for easy reference during the lesson,
- large printable form of the essential question, student friendly objective, and questions to post for visual learners
There are tons of extras and extensions to be used after the lesson for more fun and learning!
- Vocabulary word cards - 5 from the story and 4 blank cards
- Infer vocabulary meaning and context clues graphic organizer
- Vocabulary activity options
- Photographs representing each vocabulary word
- Multiple Choice Quiz
- Character traits sort to show how the Sour Grape changed from beginning, to middle, to end.
- Inside and outside traits sort
- Sequence story events on post-its and practice retelling. Three differentiated versions included.
- Summarize the story using vocabulary words. Two versions included.
- Answer WH? questions about key details in the text by cutting/ pasting pictures.
- Identify cause and Effect relationships. Includes two versions and a large center version.
- Discuss and respond to interpretive questions. Three options are included.
- Analyze a sentence from the text in the “Sentence Spotlight”.
- Make new words using letters in "sour grape".
- Nouns and verbs sort
- Prefix un- and suffix -ful using the words unfair and peaceful (from the story).
- Six discussion prompts
- Make text-to-self connections with story events. Two options included.
- Sort sweet and sour behaviors.
- Write and illustrate: “I’m feeling grape-ful!”
- Brainstorm ideas in response to the titles: “Things that I am grapeful for” and “How to be a sweet grape”.
- Bulletin board headers and grapes: “We’re a sweet bunch of grapes” and “We’re feeling grape-ful!”
- Sour Grape Craft
Thank you for checking out this lesson plan! Please let me know if you have any questions before purchasing.
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