Name: Big Red Lollipop Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA
SKU: 649ba4d749cfd80019566855
Price: 39.99 USD
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Product description

From the author

This 35-page companion for Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan provides 30 read-aloud response activities. Supply the picture book separately.

Choose from prediction, story elements, sequencing, summary, inference, connections, character traits and change, perspective, setting, theme, opinion writing and book review. Rubina, Sana and Ami each have individual character-response pages.

Teacher tips recommend spreading activities across multiple sessions and keeping illustrations visible. Keys are provided for the details-to-inferences activity and vocabulary word search; personal responses remain open-ended.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Analyze character traits, feelings, and change across three characters using text evidence
Determine the story's theme and problem/solution structure
Make predictions, inferences, and personal connections while reading

Teaching tips

Spread the 30 activities across a week or more rather than assigning them all at once, as the included teacher tip page recommends.
Project the book's illustrations during the read-aloud, since the visuals are described as necessary for following the story.
Use the three parallel Character Inside & Out pages (Rubina, Sana, Ami) as a small-group rotation, with each group focusing on a different character before comparing notes as a class.

Skills covered

Character analysis — parallel activity sets for three named characters (Rubina, Sana, Ami) build traits, feelings, and change over the story's arc
Perspective-taking — the Character Perspective page has students compare Rubina's and Sana's viewpoints on the same events through drawings and thought bubbles
Theme and problem/solution — dedicated pages ask students to identify the story's theme and its central problem and resolution with text evidence

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