Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett.

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 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: Students will make predictions about the text before reading the book.

• 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.

• Cause & Effect: Students match the causes to the effects (ANSWER KEY included).

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

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

• Character Traits: Students choose character traits that describe the characters at various points in the story, providing examples from the book to support their chosen traits.

• 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 characters’ 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 characters 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 characters 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 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 Swap: Students will alter the settings in the story by illustrating scenes in a jungle and a big city. Afterward, they will explain how these new settings would impact elements of the story and identify what remains unchanged.

• Notice & Note: Students will observe significant details presented by the author in both the text and illustrations, jotting down their observations.

• 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.

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

• Idioms: Students will read the sentences below and use context clues to help them determine the meaning of the underlined idioms (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Social Media Post: Students imagine they are a character in the story and create a social media post to share one event from the story. They will include a caption, name, location, the number of likes, and a creative hashtag.

• Nine Lives on Nantucket Island: Students will retell Comet’s adventures on Nantucket Island with pictures and captions., including details from the story to highlight the most important or memorable parts.

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

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• Prep for a Podcast: Students imagine interviewing Comet for a podcast, drafting three questions and his responses. They can then pair up with a classmate to role-play the fictional interview with Comet.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the books Comet’s Nine Lives and Town Mouse and Country Mouse.

• Author Study Brochure: Students research to learn more about the author, Jan Brett’s life, and create a brochure.

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