Courage by Bernard Waber Interactive Read-Aloud Activities and Book Co

This picture book companion is a comprehensive supplemental resource for Courage by Bernard Waber.

Featuring 21 ready-to-use reading activities, this resource allows for tailored learning to meet students' diverse needs and academic abilities. Students will engage in identifying story elements, determining themes, analyzing metaphors, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, inferences, and connections, and answering questions that encourage both literal and critical thinking. These activities are designed to foster higher-level thinking skills, support evidence-based reasoning, and inspire students to express their thoughts and perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions: Students predict the story's events before reading.

• Making Connections: Students connect events from the story to their own experiences.

• Making Inferences: Students infer details and meanings while reading.

• Making Sense of Metaphors: Students identify and explain the metaphors used in the story.

• Thinking About the Text: Students answer text-based questions with examples.

• Thinking Beyond the Text: Students answer questions that extend beyond the text with examples.

• Theme: Students determine the story's theme and provide supporting text evidence.

• Everyday Courage vs. Amazing Courage: Students categorize examples of courage as everyday or extraordinary and create their own examples.

• Courage Is: Students explain why the author likens courage to various experiences.

• Notice & Note: Students highlight and take notes on key details in the text and illustrations.

• Discovering Courage through the Five Senses: Students describe courage using the five senses.

• 3-2-1: Students list three examples of courage, describe two personal examples, and choose one word to define courage, explaining their choice.

• Author's Message: Students outline four significant events, their chronological order, and the author's message.

• Courageous ABCs: Students write examples of courage for each letter of the alphabet.

• Courage Caught on Social Media: Students create a social media post showcasing an example of courage.

• Crossword Puzzle: Students solve a crossword puzzle using provided clues (answer key included).

• Word Search Puzzle: Students find hidden words in a word search puzzle using provided clues (answer key included).

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• New Book Pages: Students think of different scenarios showing everyday and extraordinary courage, write sentences, and illustrate their ideas.

• Having Courage: Students write about a personal experience where they demonstrated courage.

This resource provides a variety of engaging and educational activities that will captivate students while allowing educators to teach essential reading concepts effectively. It encourages students to use higher-level thinking skills, support their answers with text evidence, and articulate their unique perspectives.

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