Brontorina! by James Howe Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Brontorina by James Howe.

With 33 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 & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & 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, students will 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 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.

• Comic Recall: Students will draw three scenes from the story, complete with speech bubbles, to tell the story's beginning, middle, and end with text and illustrations.

• 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.

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

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

• Character Traits: Students read the following character quotes and explain how what they said affected the other characters in the story.

• Character Dialogue: Students read the following character quotes and explain how what they said affected the other characters in the story.

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

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

• Character Feelings (Brontorina): 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 Feelings (Madame Lucille): 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 character traits that best describe the character at different times throughout the story & give examples from the book to support those traits.

• 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.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students illustrate one of the events from the story and explain why this event is important to the plot.

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

• 3-2-1: Students will find three details from the story that show Brontorina is confident, describe two things that Madame Lucille did to help Brontorina fulfill her dream of being a dancer, and choose one word that best describes Brontorina and explain why.

• 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.

• Before & After: Students will draw a picture and explain Madame Lucille’s dance academy before she met Brontorina, then describe Madame Lucille’s dance academy after.

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

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

• Vocabulary Crossword 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).

• Dance Moves: Students will draw pictures to illustrate each of the four dance movements.

• New Dance Academy Flyer: Students design a flyer to attract dinosaurs to attend Madame Lucille’s dance academy.

• Thank You Letter: Students imagine they are Brontorina and write a letter to Madame Lucille thanking her for supporting their dream to dance.

• Dinosaurs Dancing on Social Media: Students draw a picture of Brontorina dancing or Madame Lucille's new Outdoor Dance Academy for Girls, Boys, and Dinosaurs and include a caption, name, location, the number of likes, and a creative hashtag.

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

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

• Dream Board: Students will complete a dream board with text and illustrations. Two versions are included: one that includes question prompts and a blank version in which students come up with their own dreams for the future.

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