Mirette on the High Wire Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a comprehensive supplemental resource for "Mirette on the High Wire" by Emily Arnold McCully.

With 34 print-and-go reading activities, this resource caters to your students' specific needs and academic abilities. Activities include identifying story elements, determining themes, analyzing characters, comparing and contrasting, making predictions, inferences, connections, and answering questions that encourage thinking within and beyond the text.

Students will love the engaging activities, and you’ll appreciate the time saved with these high-level reading resources. The activities are designed to promote higher-level thinking, encourage text evidence support, and challenge students to express their thoughts and perspectives.

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• Making Predictions: Students predict the text before reading.

• Story Elements: Fill in boxes with words and pictures to represent story elements.

• Sequencing: Retell and illustrate important parts of the story.

• Recalling Events in Chronological Order: Describe and illustrate four major events in order.

• Summary: Use the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer to write a summary.

• Story Event Sort: Describe and categorize a scene or event from the story.

• Making Connections: Connect personal experiences to story events.

• Making Inferences: Use clues and schema to make inferences while reading.

• Character Traits (Mirette): Choose and support character traits with examples.

• Character Traits (Mirette & Bellini): Describe traits for both characters with examples.

• Character Inside & Out (Mirette/Bellini): Detail what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• Character Feelings (Mirette/Bellini): Describe changes in feelings and provide event examples.

• Character Development (Mirette/Bellini): Identify traits at different times and support with text.

• Character Change (Bellini): Explain how Bellini changed and what caused it.

• Overcoming Obstacles: Describe challenges faced by Mirette and Bellini, their responses, and resulting traits.

• Sketch a Scene: Draw a scene and explain its importance.

• Setting the Scene: Identify and explain different settings in the story.

• Figuring Out Figurative Language: Analyze phrases and their meanings (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Theme: Determine the theme and provide text evidence.

• Thinking About/Beyond the Text: Answer questions with text support.

• Dear Diary: Write a diary entry as a character from the story.

• Dear Mirette and Bellini: Write a letter as the little girl inspired by their poster.

• Showing Off on Social Media: Create a social media post as a character from the story.

• Prep for a Podcast: Prepare interview questions and answers for a podcast.

• Learning Something New: Connect the story to personal learning experiences.

• Crossword Puzzle: Fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Search Puzzle: Find hidden words in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

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

• Book Review: Rate and review the book.

• Marie Spelterini: Brave Tightrope Walker (Reading Passage): Read and answer questions about the passage (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

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