Feathers: Not Just for Flying Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Feathers: Not Just for Flying by Melissa Stewart.

With 24 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 apply listening and note-taking skills, investigate the functions and importance of bird feathers, make inferences and connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, identify and gain information using text and graphic features, answer questions that require them to think 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 book.

• KWL graphic organizer: Before reading about bird feathers, students will fill in the first two columns of the chart with what they already know and what they hope to learn. Then, after reading the book, they fill in the last column with the new information they learned.

• Word Scramble: Students use the details from the book to unscramble the words (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Who Am I?: Students will match the words in the word bank to the descriptions and draw and color a picture of each bird (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers ONLY): Students read the statements and determine if they are true or false (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers and correct the false statement): Students determine if the statements are true or false, and rewrite the false statements to make them true (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Main Idea and Supporting Details: Students will identify three details to support the main idea (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• 3-2-1: Students describe three ways that feathers protect birds, describe two ways that feathers help birds in the water, and choose one word that best describes feathers and explain why.

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

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

• Making Sense of Similes: Students identify the two things that are being compared in each simile and explain why the author included it in their writing (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Feathers are Like... Students will describe how feathers are similar to each of the objects pictured.

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

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

• 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.

• The ABCs of Bird Feathers: Students write words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to show what they learned about bird feathers.

• Acrostic Poem: Students create an acrostic poem to describe bird feathers.

• Feather Functions Poster: Students will create an informative poster about the different functions of bird feathers including illustrations, key facts, and at least three new vocabulary words from the book.

• Word Search 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).

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

• Fun Facts about Bird Feathers: Students will record interesting information and fun facts about bird feathers.

• New Vocabulary: Students choose four new words that they learned while reading about feathers, find the meanings, and draw a picture for each word.

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

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