Book Companion: The Bugliest Bug Read Aloud

This companion resource is a comprehensive supplementary guide for Carol Diggory Shields' book, The Bugliest Bug. Offering 34 ready-to-use reading activities, this toolkit provides a range of options, allowing educators to tailor lessons based on individual student requirements and skill levels.

Students will investigate various bugs and insects, investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

Students will thoroughly enjoy the captivating activities, and you'll value the time saved from scouring for advanced resources to address challenging reading concepts. The offered activities are crafted to foster higher-order thinking, prompt students to present textual proof for their reasoning, and inspire them to share their personal insights and viewpoints.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• ◾ Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students make predictions about the text.

• ◾ Story Elements: Students fill in the boxes with words & pictures to represent the story elements.

• ◾ Sequencing: Students will retell & illustrate the important parts of the story.

• ◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order: Students will describe and illustrate four events in the story in chronological order.

• ◾ Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

• ◾ Story Event Sort: Students will describe a scene or event from the story that fits into each of the categories & explain how the event made them feel & how it relates to the category.

• ◾ Problem & Solution: Students identify four minor problems and solutions in the story.

• ◾ Using Details to Make Inferences: Students fill out the graphic organizer for Dilly and make inferences about her character based on the illustrations, thoughts, speech, and actions.

• ◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• ◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• ◾ Notice & Note: Students will notice the important details the author includes in the text & illustrations and take notes.

• ◾ Spider Sleuth: Students identify the clues in the story that hints at the judges’ true identities.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• ◾ Character Feelings: Students describe how the character's feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• ◾ Character Development: Students select the character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and provide examples from the book to support each character trait.

• ◾ Character Change: Students will explain how the character changed from the beginning to the end of the story and describe the events that caused the change to happen.

• ◾ Character Summary: Students summarize the main character of the story.

• ◾ Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and explain why it's important to the plot.

• ◾ Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings, write about what happened there, & explain why it is important to the plot.

• ◾ Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know that the setting changed.

• ◾ 3-2-1: Students will list three suspicious things that Dilly noticed about the judges, 2 ways the bugs defended themselves, and one word that describes Dilly.

• ◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story and put them in chronological order. Then, answer the questions about the author's message.

• ◾ Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• ◾ Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• ◾ Then & Now: Students will describe and illustrate how Dilly saw herself before the bug contest began. Then, they will describe and illustrate how Dilly sees herself now that she led the other bugs in their defense against the spiders.

• ◾ The Bugliest Bug Yearbook: Students will draw and label bugs for each superlative.

• ◾ Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.

• ◾ Bugliest Bug Contest Flyer: Students create a flyer to attract contestants for the Bugliest Bug contest. The flyer should include words, colored illustrations, date, time, place, contest categories, and prizes.

• ◾ 2 - Crossword Puzzles: Students use the clues and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• ◾ Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle. Words can go across or down. Letters are shared when the words intersect (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• ◾ Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

• ◾ The Bugliest Bug Matching/Memory Game (Color and B&W versions included): Cut out the picture and description cards. Students match the bug to the correct description. This can be played in a variety of ways, such as a matching game or a memory game. Students can play at their table groups, with a partner, or in centers.

• ◾ 28 - Bug Bingo Cards (Color and B&W versions included): Students match the clues to the bugs pictured on their bingo cards using a dot marker or bingo chip to mark each bug as it is described or called out. If they get four in a row, they call BINGO and win.

• ◾ Bug Bingo PowerPoint Presentation: This PowerPoint presentation can be used when you play Bug Bingo to project random bugs from the book onto the screen. Just open PowerPoint in presentation mode and click the button to show randomized slides of the bugs.

This resource is for extension read-aloud activities only. The book is not included.

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