Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest Book Companion Activities fo

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Super-Completely and Totally the Messiest!, by Judith Viorst.

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, practice plotting story events, 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.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Cause & Effect (simplified): Students are given either the cause or effect and will cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).

• ◾ Cause & Effect: Students cut & match up cause & effect cards, then paste them in the correct boxes (ANSWER KEY included).

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

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

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

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

• ◾ Character Feelings (Sophie): 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 (Olivia): 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 (Sophie): 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 Change (Olivia): 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 summarize the main character of the story.

• ◾ Connecting With Characters: Students choose a character from the story that they most like and write about the qualities that make them like the character.

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

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Problem & Solution: Students answer questions related to the problem & solution in the story.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Before & After: Imagining that Sophie learns how to be neat and tidy, students will draw a picture of what Sophie's room looked like before and draw a picture of what her room looks like after.

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

• ◾ Compare & Contrast: Students compare and contrast Sophie and Olivia.

• ◾ 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).

• ◾ More Mess: Students will use the patterns in the story to add more ways that Sophie is probably messy and draw pictures to go along with their examples.

• ◾ Book Review: Students will color in the stars to rate how much they enjoyed the book and draw a new cover & their favorite character from the story. Then, they will explain why other kids should or should not read it.

💡Need ideas for different ways you can implement these activities?

• ◾ Focus on different reading skills each day for targeted instruction, and have students complete a corresponding printable to check for understanding.

• ◾ During centers, students can independently read the story again and complete an activity that reviews a previously taught concept.

• ◾ Work with students on a reading concept they struggle with during guided reading or strategy groups.

• ◾ Students work with a partner or in literature circles to complete additional reading activities.

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

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