Brave Irene by William Steig Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Brave Irene by William Steig.

With 37 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student's specific needs and academic abilities. Students will identify story elements, determine the theme, analyze characters, compare and contrast, make predictions, inferences, and connections, answer questions that require them to think within and beyond the text, and so much more!

Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

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

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

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

• Recalling events in chronological order: Students describe and illustrate four major 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 and explain how the event made them feel and how it relates to the category.

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

• Cause & Effect: Students fill in the missing causes and effects (answer key included).

• Making Inferences: Students answer the questions by making inferences about the text.

• Making Inferences Graphic Organizer: Students use clues and schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Visualizing: Students will read the sentences from the story and illustrate what they visualize.

• Sensory Details: Students choose an event from the story and describe it from the character's perspective using all five senses.

• Character Traits: Students choose four words from the list that describe the character and give examples from the story to explain how they show each trait.

• Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.

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

• Character Development: Students select character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.

• 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.

• Overcoming Obstacles: Students will pick two physical, emotional, or mental challenges that the character faced in the story, describe how they responded to those challenges, and choose a character trait that developed as a result of their experiences.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story and describe what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

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

• Setting Influences the Plot: Students answer questions about the setting of the story to gain a better understanding of how a story's setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.

• 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.

• 3-2-1: Students will describe three obstacles that Irene had to overcome in order to deliver the dress to the duchess, describe two moments in the story when Irene felt like quitting but didn't, and choose one word that best describes Irene and explain why.

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

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

• Making Sense of Similes: Students read the text taken from the story, identify what two things are being compared, and explain what each example of figurative language means (answer key included).

• Personification: Students identify personification in the text, specify what's being personified, describe the human trait or action assigned to the non-human element, and elucidate the author's purpose for using personification (answer key included).

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the definitions and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (answer key included).

• Word Search Puzzle: Students match the words in the word bank to the definitions below and find the words hidden in the puzzle (answer key included).

• Dear Diary: Students will write a diary entry from Irene’s point of view about something that happened in the story and include a picture to go along with their writing.

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• Haiku Poem Planning Sheet: Students will choose a topic or object that relates to winter, brainstorm ideas using the five senses, and list adjectives to describe the topic or object.

• Haiku Poem Template: Students will write and illustrate their Haiku poem.

• Cinquain Poem: Students will write a Cinquain poem about something related to winter.

• Blizzard ABCs: Students complete the chart with words or phrases that start with each letter of the alphabet to describe a blizzard.

• All About Blizzards Brochure: Students use the provided questions within the brochure as a guide to research and discover more information about blizzards.

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