Galimoto by Karen Williams Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Galimoto! by Karen Lynn Williams.

With 35 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 the book, 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.

• Retell the story: Students retell the beginning, middle, and end of the story with text and illustrations.

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

• Story Event Sort: Students 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 fill in the causes and effects (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Character Traits: Students choose four words from the list that describe Kondi's character and give examples from the story to explain how he shows each trait.

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

• 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 and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.

• 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.

• Character’s Actions & Reactions: Students read the situations that the character experienced in the story and fill in the missing information with details from the story (ANSWER KEY included).

• Overcoming Obstacles: Students will pick two physical, emotional, or mental challenges that the character faced in the story, describe how he responded to those challenges, and choose a character trait that developed as a result of his experiences.

• 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 Influences the Plot: Students answer questions about the setting of the story to gain a better understanding of how a story's setting helps to build the narrative’s mood, plot, and character development.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the setting of the story to where they live.

• 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.

• 3-2-1: Students will describe three obstacles that Kondi had to overcome in order to collect enough wire to build his galimoto, describe two situations in which Kondi’s village supported his efforts to build a galimoto, and choose one word that best describes Kondi and explain why.

• 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.

• Letter to Kondi: Students write a letter to Kondi describing the things they would like to do and see while visiting his village.

• Dear Diary: Students will write a diary entry from Kondi’s point of view about something that happened in the story and include a picture to go along with their writing.

• Prep for a Podcast: Students pretend they're interviewing Kondi for a podcast and write out three questions they'd like to ask him, as well as his responses. They can then partner up with a classmate to act out the imaginary interview with Kondi.

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

• Acrostic Poem: Students will create an acrostic poem to highlight the most important parts of the story.

• Galimoto Gone Viral: Students create a social media post from Kondi’s point of view showcasing his galimoto. The post should include a picture, caption, name and location, the number of likes, and a fun hashtag.

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• Build a Galimoto: Students will design their own galimoto using pipe cleaners to represent their hopes, desires, or a special achievement. They will then answer reflection questions and include a picture of their finished galimoto.

• All About Malawi: Students conduct research to learn more about the country of Malawi.

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