Earrings! by Judith Viorst Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Earrings! by Judith Viorst.

With 30 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.

• Reading Text & Illustrations: Students read the text from the story, look closely at the illustrations, list the details they notice in the illustrations, and explain what those details communicate about the characters (ANSWER KEY included).

• Character Traits: Students choose the most important character traits that describe each of the characters and give one to two examples from the story that support the traits they chose.

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

• Character Inside & Out (Girl’s Parents): Students include details from the story to describe what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• Character Feelings: 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 identify three reasons the girl gives for wanting pierced ears, give two reasons why the girl's parents don’t want her to get her ears pierced, and choose one word that best describes the girl in the story 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 the little girl’s feelings and behavior in the story. Then, pretend that her parents allow her to get her ears pierced, draw another picture, and describe her feelings and behavior after she gets her ears pierced.

• 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).

• Dear Diary: Students will write a diary entry from the girl’s point of view about something that happened in the story and include a picture that shows what happened in their writing.

• Dear Mom & Dad: Students write a letter from the girl’s perspective to her mom and dad to try and convince them to change their minds about letting her get her ears pierced.

• Dear Daughter: Students write a letter from the mom and dad’s perspectives, giving reasons why they don't want her to get her ears pierced.

• Acrostic Poem: Students will create an acrostic poem to describe the character’s love for earrings.

• Happiest Moment Caught on Social Media: Students imagine the day when the girl becomes old enough to get earrings and create an Instagram post as if they were the girl.

• Wish, Want, Need: Students will think of three things they want or activities they want to do and give one reason why for each.

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

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

Enrichment Activity: Designing Earrings for American Heroes

• 3 people on a page; 6 pages to choose from: Students will design special earrings for important people in American history. They will read the short biographies of the three people and think about who they were, the challenges they faced, and the amazing things they achieved. Then, draw their personalized earring designs in the jewelry boxes.

• 1 person on a half sheet; 18 people to choose from: Students will design special earrings for an important person in American history. They will read the short biography about the person and think about who they were, the challenges they faced, and the amazing things they achieved. Then, draw their personalized earring design in the jewelry box.

Includes the following American Heroes:

• Amelia Earhart

• Abraham Lincoln

• Babe Ruth

• Benjamin Franklin

• Fredrick Douglass

• George Washington

• Harriet Tubman

• Helen Keller

• Jackie Robinson

• Johnny Appleseed

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Neil Armstrong

• Rosa Parks

• Ruby Bridges

• Sacagawea

• Sally Ride

• Susan B. Anthony

• Thomas Jefferson

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