Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House #6 Lesson Plan…

About this resource

What's inside this resource

A 5-day NO PREP novel study of Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House #6). This comprehensive book companion includes a lesson plan, chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary practice, and many other activities. Perfect for first grade, second grade, and third grade classrooms, homeschool families, and cooperatives.

You can easily customize lessons based on student age, reading and comprehension level, interests, and learning style! Additionally, all worksheets can be completed in an interactive notebook or simply discussed aloud if you desire to reduce the number of pages you print.

THIS RESOURCE COVERS:

Art (drawing, coloring, arts & crafts)

Comprehension
English language arts
Geography
Grammar
History
Reading
Research
Social studies
Spelling
Writing

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Predict a story's plot from its cover before reading.
Answer literal and inferential comprehension questions about each chapter, such as identifying a character or recalling a specific plot detail.
Define new vocabulary words introduced in each chapter, such as slant, shimmer and lump.
Compare a book's actual ending to a student-written alternate ending.
Write a narrative postcard from a story setting in the voice of a character who traveled there.

Teaching tips

Follow the 5-day structure as written, since each day is pre-built around a specific video, chapter pair, quiz and drawing activity rather than needing to be assembled from separate pieces.
Let students complete the worksheets in an interactive notebook or discuss them aloud instead of printing every page, since the resource is explicitly designed to reduce printing when desired.
Save the KWL worksheet's 'Learned' section for day 5, since it is specifically tied to that day's discussion after the Amazon rainforest video and final chapters.

Skills covered

Chapter comprehension — students answer questions specific to each chapter's events, such as identifying a character or recalling a plot detail from Chapter 1 (page 12).
Predictive reading — students summarize what they expect will happen using only the book's front and back covers before reading begins (page 9).
Vocabulary in context — students work through words introduced chapter by chapter, such as slant, shimmer and lump from Chapter 1 (page 23).
Narrative writing — students write a postcard home in character, describing their imagined rainforest adventure (page 110).
Creative response to text — students compare the book's real ending to their own alternate ending (page 76).

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How does the drawing activity connect to each day's reading?

Each day pairs its chapters with a themed rainforest-animal drawing that appears in that section of the book -- for example a tree frog on day one, a toucan and a monkey on day two, and an iguana on day five -- reinforcing the setting visually alongside the reading.

Is there a writing task besides the chapter quizzes?

Yes. Beyond the daily quizzes, students write an alternate ending to compare against the book's original, complete a book review, and write a postcard home in character describing their rainforest adventure.