Name: Book Activities for "The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be"
SKU: 62e325ae2b1e74698f58e8ba
Price: 39.99 USD
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Kickstart the school year by fostering a sense of community within your classroom and developing a visually appealing bulletin board display using this PRINTABLE resource, which supplements the book "The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be" by Joanna Gaines.

Your students will get to engage in important ELA skills while having fun decorating a hot air balloon that features their preferred learning style. You can even personalize the "basket" of the hot air balloon with the students' pictures! This colorful display is perfect for events like open houses or back-to-school nights.

During this activity, students will:

Enrich their vocabulary
Determine and back up the text's theme with textual evidence
Recognize and interpret figurative language
Establish connections between the text and themselves

The resource provides:

Helpful tips for teachers for each skill/activity
8 vibrant vocabulary word cards (available in both color and black/white)
Worksheet activities targeting vocabulary, theme, figurative language, and reflection questions
Answer keys to guide you
Outlines for hot air balloons for the concluding activity
Examples to inspire your students

In the final activity, two options are provided:

Students can pen 4-5 adjectives that best describe their working style on the hot air balloon OR
Students can craft a full sentence or phrase that encapsulates their optimal working style

The adaptable nature of this resource allows for easy differentiation based on student writing abilities (e.g., ELLs) or to cater to various grade levels.

Once you have a copy of the book, simply print out this activity and you're ready to go! This resource is ideal for the start of the academic year, to kick off a new project or collaborative work, or to foster community spirit at any point throughout the year. It's an excellent way to encourage self-awareness among students and respect for diverse learning styles.

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What's included

A Teacher's Tips page laying out the five parts in order, with a suggestion that students hold up a "V" on their fingers when they hear a vocabulary word during the read-aloud
Eight vocabulary picture cards in colour and the same eight again in black and white: bounty, confetti, resourceful, compassionate, extravagant, gracious, considerate, courageous
A Part 1 fill-in-the-blanks page matching each of the eight words to its definition from a word box
An optional Theme Brainstorm sheet asking for two or three themes, then one chosen theme supported by three reasons
A Part 2 written theme page asking for a theme supported by two or three examples from the text, in complete sentences, plus an illustration
A Part 3 figurative language page with six items, including which phrase is figurative, what type it is, three more examples like "bounty of blue", a student's own alliteration, and why the title is figurative
A Part 4 reflection page: three ways the characters work best, the student's own preferred way, what the author means by "See how beautiful it can be when our differences share the same sky?", and two adjectives from the text that describe the student
Two Part 5 closing options — write a sentence about how you like to work, or four to five words describing yourself — each with a planning box for the wording and the colour scheme
Answer keys for Parts 1 to 4, including possible themes such as "Everyone can work differently to achieve the same goal" and figurative examples "confetti of color", "plenty of pink" and "play a part"
Hot air balloon outlines and completed examples at the back of the pack

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Match eight story words to their meanings and recognise them while listening to the text
Generate two or three possible themes for a story and select one that can be supported
Write a theme statement backed by two or three examples from the text, in complete sentences
Identify alliteration and personification in phrases from the book and explain why the title is figurative
Describe how different characters prefer to work and relate that to their own working style, choosing adjectives from the text to describe themselves

Teaching tips

The Teacher's Tips page sequences the whole pack: cards and discussion before reading, the theme work on a second read-aloud, then figurative language, reflection and the closing activity
The brainstorm sheet is marked optional and can be skipped straight to the written theme question, which is the built-in differentiation in the pack
The vocabulary cards come in colour and in black and white with identical wording, so one set can be laminated for display while the other is printed for students
The reflection discussion is designed to become an anchor chart — the suggested headings are "What's Your Working Style?" and "Adjectives that Describe My Working Habits"
Check the figurative language marking page against the student sheet before using it: the multiple-choice options are printed in a different order on the two pages, so marking by letter rather than by the word chosen will not line up

Skills covered

Vocabulary in context — eight words from the story are met on picture cards, listened for during the read-aloud and then matched to definitions on the fill-in-the-blanks page.
Determining theme — students brainstorm two or three possible themes, choose one they can defend, and support it with reasons and text examples in complete sentences.
Recognising figurative language — the questions turn on alliteration in phrases such as "bounty of blue" and on the personification in the book's own title.
Producing figurative language — one item asks students to write their own example of alliteration rather than only identifying one.
Self-reflection through text — students list how the characters work, decide how they work best themselves, and pick adjectives from the story that describe them.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What is needed alongside the pages?

The picture book itself. Every part refers back to it — the eight vocabulary words are drawn from the story, the theme question asks for examples from the text, and the figurative-language items quote phrases such as "bounty of blue" — so the book is read aloud first and the pages worked afterwards.

Are the vocabulary cards supplied in one form or two?

Two, with identical wording. The same eight words and definitions appear as colour cards and again as black-and-white cards, so one set can be laminated for display while the other is printed for students to keep or colour.

What does the closing activity involve?

A hot air balloon. Students pick an outline and either write a sentence about how they like to work best or four to five words describing themselves, plan the wording and the colours in boxes first, then colour it in. The Teacher's Tips page suggests displaying the finished balloons and offers starters such as "I work best when...", and students can draw themselves in the basket or add a photograph.