Something Beautiful Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the read-aloud book Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth.

With 30 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 characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, sequence story events, compare & contrast, identify problems & solutions, 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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• 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.

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

• Recalling events in Chronological Order: Students describe and illustrate four major events in the story in chronological order.

• 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.

• Problem & Solution: Students will identify four minor problems and solutions in the story.

• Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

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

• 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 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.

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will draw a scene from the story & explain why it's important.

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

• Setting Influences the Plot: Students will draw a scene from the story that takes place in one of the settings and write about what happened there and why it was important to the plot.

• 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.

• 3-2-1: Students will describe three things the characters did in the story to make their community more beautiful, describe 2 things that are beautiful in their own community, and explain one way, they, their parents, or friends can make the community in which they live more beautiful.

• Before & After: Students will describe and illustrate how the girl felt about her home before she discovered how to find beauty and how she felt after.

• A World of Beauty: Students will list 20 beautiful things in their world that would be missed the most if taken away.

• Dear Diary: Students will write four diary entries from the character’s point of view.

• Character Acrostic Poem: Students will write an acrostic poem to describe the word “Beautiful.”

• Beautiful ABCs: Using the alphabet, students will discover something beautiful for each letter of the alphabet.

• Discovering Beauty Using the Five Senses: Students will describe what “beautiful” looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells like.

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

• Compare & Contrast: Students will compare the books, Something Beautiful and Last Stop on Market Street.

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

• Beautiful Thoughts (5 girl & 4 boy templates): Students will respond to open-ended questions about their perceptions of beauty. They can then customize the cartoon image to look like them.

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