Literacy activities to accompany Deb Pilutti's Old Rock (is not boring). Perfect for introducing natural history, the rock cycle, and social-emotional values regarding appreciating differences and not making assumptions. Blackline copies included! Predicting, story elements, story map, BME, character traits, main idea, author's purpose, theme, summarize, sequence of events with transitional words, cut and paste sequence of events, can-has-is, persuasive writing, opinion writing, retelling, comp