Name: Peanut Butter and Cupcake | Book Companion Activities | Digital Book Study
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This resource is a digital book study deck for Peanut Butter and Cupcake. Each lesson will include the read-aloud and a quick write.

Students will work on skills such as:

-Sequencing

-Comprehension

-Story Elements

-Summarizing

What's included

Warm-up discussion slide (What do you know about making friends?) and a learning-goals slide
What Happened? retelling slide with beginning, middle, and end boxes (type, write, or draw)
Character Close Up slide covering what Peanut Butter heard, saw, smelled, touched, and said
Drag-and-drop Sequence of Events slide with four story events to number
What's Missing? cloze slide with a six-word bank and sentences quoted from the book
Story-elements teaching slide, a type-in organizer, and a drag-and-drop matching table
True/false quote cards and a main idea vs. detail sort
Making Friends writing slide with First/Next/Also/Last sentence prompts and word bank
How to Use, accessibility (Made for Everyone), icon legend, and licensing pages

Resource types: Novel Studies, Worksheets & Printables

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Retell the story's beginning, middle, and end in words, typing, or drawings
Sequence four major events from the story in the order they happened
Identify the five story elements - characters, setting, plot, conflict, resolution - and match story details to each
Distinguish the story's main idea from supporting details
Write a short personal narrative about making a friend using First/Next/Also/Last transition prompts

Teaching tips

Check the speaker notes before teaching - the deck keeps per-slide directions and estimated timings there, and the full activity set runs about 45 minutes
Slides work as an instructor-led lesson, as assigned digital work, or printed in color or black-and-white for paper-pencil pairs and small groups, per the built-in How to Use page
The learning-style icons on each slide (observe, art, read, quiz, write, click, listen, video, talk, type) signal how students will respond, so they can double as station labels
Read the book first: the cloze and true/false slides quote exact lines, so students need the read-aloud fresh in mind

Skills covered

Story retelling - students capture the beginning, middle, and end of Peanut Butter's friendship search in a three-box organizer.
Sequencing - four story events, from Cupcake's sprinkle castles to the birthday soccer ball, are numbered by drag and drop.
Story elements - students learn the five elements, fill an organizer, and match story cards such as 'No one wants to play with Peanut Butter' to conflict.
Close reading of quotations - true/false cards and word-bank sentences use the book's exact lines, sending students back to the text.
Narrative writing - a culminating slide has students write four sentences about their own friend-making moment with transition-word prompts.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Do students respond in one fixed way, or can they choose how to answer?

Most slides offer type, write, or draw options, and others use drag-and-drop cards; icon cues on each slide show whether students will observe, read, write, click, listen, talk, or type.

What accessibility supports are built into the deck?

The Made for Everyone page lists 14pt-minimum type in the Lexend Deca font, colored backgrounds, 1.5 line spacing, icon explainers, multiple engagement options, writing templates, and embedded audio for the reading passages.

Which characters from the book appear in the activities?

Peanut Butter leads throughout, with Cupcake, Hamburger, Hotdog, Egg, Soup, French Fries, Jelly, and Meatball appearing across the sequencing, story-element, true/false, and main-idea slides.