Sam and the Lucky Money Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Sam and the Lucky Money by Karen Chinn.

With 33 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 investigate illustrations, identify story elements, determine the theme, analyze characters, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and 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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• Judging by the Cover: Students examine the front cover and answer the questions.

• Making Predictions: Before reading, 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.

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

• 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.

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

• Main Idea & Details: Students will identify which of the statements reflects the two main ideas. Then, choose three supporting details for each main idea (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Character Inside & Out (Sam’s Mom): 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 & give examples from the book to support the traits they chose.

• 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 Summary: Students will choose a character from the story to summarize and fill out the graphic organizer.

• Character Perspective: Students will compare Sam's perspective on giving the man the four dollars to the man's perspective on receiving the money by drawing pictures and adding text to the thought bubbles.

• Descriptive Language: Students will read the text from the story, draw a picture of what they visualized, and explain what the author’s purpose is for using the descriptive language (ANSWER KEY included).

• Sensory Details: Students will examine each illustration using the five senses and describe what they see, hear, smell, and feel.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students illustrate one of the events from the story and explain why this event is important to the plot.

• Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know the setting changed.

• 3-2-1: Students will identify three symbols of luck during the Chinese New Year, describe two things that are celebrated during the Chinese New Year, and choose one word that best describes Sam and explain why.

• 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.

• Before & After: Students sketch a picture and describe how Sam feels about spending his lucky money before and after seeing the homeless man on the street.

• 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.

• Vocabulary Crossword 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).

• Trip to Chinatown: Students recap the characters' trip through Chinatown with pictures and captions including details from the story to highlight the most important or memorable parts.

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

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

• Good Luck Symbols: Students scan the QR code to view a presentation about Chinese New Year good luck symbols. After viewing the presentation, they select eight symbols to draw and describe in the envelopes.

• Create a Mythical Creature: Students will combine the characteristics, or features, of two fascinating animals to design their own mythical creature. Then, create the environment, or habitat, that the creature lives in.

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

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