The Empty Pot Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book The Empty Pot by Demi.

With 28 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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• 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.

• Character Actions & Reactions: Students read different situations that the characters faced in the story and fill in the boxes with the character's missing action, reaction, or both (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Character Inside & Out (The Emperor): 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 and give examples from the book to support the traits they choose.

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

• Sketch a Scene From the Story: Students will 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.

• Supporting Evidence: Students fill in the boxes with the provided text evidence that supports each character trait (ANSWER KEY included).

• 3-2-1: Students will describe three ways in which Ping’s actions show determination and patience, give two likely reasons that the Emperor gives the children seeds that he knows will not grow, and choose one word to describe Ping 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 will draw a picture and describe Ping as he’s on his way to the palace to present his pot to the Emperor and draw a picture and describe Ping after.

• 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.

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the definitions and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEY included).

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

• Thinking About Theme: Students will fill in the flower pots with answers to the question prompts regarding the theme of the story, honesty.

• The Truth About Lying: Students will make a list of the lies that they can remember telling or that have been told to them and organize those lies as unacceptable (harmful) or acceptable (helpful). Then write a response to the question of whether it is ever necessary to tell a lie and explain why or why not.

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

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