Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs | Reading Activity Packet

About this resource

What's inside this resource

This resource is a Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Reading Activity Packet.

It is a week's worth of work for reading class. It can be used with any weather books!

Included:

- Sentence writing daily
- Monday: Compound words
- Tuesday: Syllables, synonyms & antonyms
- Wednesday: Commas
- Thursday: Parts of speech
- Friday: Adjectives

There is a blank writing template with primary lines for students to write!

What's included

A cover page titled "A Week's Worth Of Work On: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs!", listing the Common Core codes the packet works from
A tracking page with Name, Initials, Date and Teacher fields, a Monday-to-Friday Good Morning Work table with a % Correct column, and a separate Afternoon Reading Adventure table
Oops! Crazy Sentences — one deliberately misspelled and unpunctuated sentence for each weekday, with lines to rewrite it on
Let's Weather This Storm! — a sixteen-word grid to build eight compound words from, each then used in a sentence, with hot + dog = hotdog worked as the example
Storms Of Synonyms & Antonyms! — ten food and storm words to divide into syllables and give a synonym and an antonym for, with dessert worked through as des-sert, pastry, appetizer
Get It While It's Hot, Hot, Hot! — eight sentences needing three items in a series numbered and separated by commas, a proper noun added and the verb highlighted
Raging Storms Are Blowing In! — a pronoun, adverb, verb, adjective and noun table for six storm openers, then the sentence written out with the adverb underlined, the verb boxed and the adjective highlighted
Cookin' Up Some Adjectives! — an adjective and noun grid feeding ten sentences, each with two adjectives highlighted and the noun boxed
A Caveman Plan planner headed "Catchy Title: If I Lived In The Town Of Chewandswallow", opening on "A Roaring Beginning" and setting out three food sections
Three ruled final draft pages, the last headed "It's A Storm Of _____!"

Resource types: Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Rewrite a sentence with its capitalisation, spelling and punctuation corrected, once for each day of the week
Build compound words from two known words and use each new word in a sentence
Divide a word into syllables and supply one word of similar meaning and one of opposite meaning
Separate three items in a series with commas and identify the verb in the same sentence
Plan a piece of writing from a titled planner and carry it through to a final draft

Teaching tips

The cover states the packet "Can be used with any weather books, or Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs!" — only the closing planner names Chewandswallow, so the language pages work with whatever weather text a class is reading
The tracking page's Monday-to-Friday table carries a % Correct column, so the packet is designed to be marked daily rather than collected at the end of the week
Every practice page opens with a worked first item — hot/dog/hotdog, dessert/des-sert/pastry/appetizer, "The juicy, hot cheeseburgers fell from the sky." — which is what makes each page usable as independent morning work
Three pages ask students to highlight, box or underline as well as write, so a highlighter belongs on the desk alongside the pencil
The sentence-fixing page carries several errors in every sentence at once, which makes it the slowest page to mark; settling what counts as a correction with the class first saves time

Skills covered

Correcting capitalisation, spelling and punctuation — five weekday sentences arrive deliberately wrong, as in "on wensday ridge school was closed cause it pored down pancaks and surup", and are rewritten on the lines beneath.
Building compound words — a sixteen-word grid holds pairs such as hot and dog, snow and man and pan and cake, and each compound a student makes is then used in a sentence of their own.
Syllables with synonyms and antonyms together — ten words including hurricane, destructive and healthy are split into syllables and matched with one word of similar meaning and one of opposite meaning.
Commas in a series — eight food-storm sentences arrive without punctuation, so the three items have to be numbered and separated before a proper noun is added and the verb highlighted.
Naming parts of speech inside a sentence — one page builds a sentence from a pronoun, adverb, verb, adjective and noun and then marks each part; another pairs two adjectives with a noun ten times over.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How closely is the packet tied to the book?

Loosely, and deliberately so. The cover says it "Can be used with any weather books, or Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs!", and the food-storm theme runs through the language pages without quoting the story. Only the closing planner is title-specific, headed "If I Lived In The Town Of Chewandswallow".

How is the week meant to be structured?

As daily morning work with a separate reading slot. The tracking page sets Monday to Friday rows against a Good Morning Work column and a % Correct column, with an Afternoon Reading Adventure table underneath, so each day carries one language page and one reading session.

What is worked out for students on each page?

The first item. The compound-word page starts from hot + dog = hotdog with a model sentence, the synonym table has dessert already split as des-sert with pastry and appetizer beside it, and the adjective page opens with "The juicy, hot cheeseburgers fell from the sky."