Honey... Honey... Lion! by Jan Brett Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Honey... Honey... Lion! by Jan Brett.

With 37 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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• Elements of a Folktale Anchor Chart or Notes Handout

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

• Folktale Checklist: Students fill in the chart with details from the story that characterize it as a folktale.

• 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.

• 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 two important traits that best describe each character and provide examples from the text for each characteristic.

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

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

• Character Feelings (Badger): 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 Feelings (Honeyguide): 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 (Badger): 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 Development (Honeyguide): 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 (Honeyguide): 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 Perspective: Students compare the Honey Badger’s perspective about not sharing the honey to Honeyguide’s perspective by drawing pictures and including what they are thinking in the thought bubbles.

• 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.

• 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.

• Onomatopoeia ABCs: Students write one sound word for each letter of the alphabet. Each word has to be an onomatopoeia, a word that was created to represent a sound (ANSWER KEY included).

• Onomatopoeia Poem: Students will write a poem about one of the onomatopoeias from their ABC list.

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

• Sorry, Not Sorry: Students state their opinion on whether Badger is greedy or just inconsiderate. Then, based on their opinion, students will write an apology note or an explanation defending Badger’s actions.

• Be a Better Buddy: Students write a letter to either Honey Badger or Honeyguide telling them how they can be a better friend, including examples from the story to explain how they behaved and suggest ways they can be better friends in the future.

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

• Book Review: Students rate and review the book.

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast the books Honey... Honey... Lion! and Berlioz the Bear.

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

• All About Botswana: Students will research to learn more about the country of Botswana.

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