The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book The Honey Makers by Gail Gibbons.

With 25 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 apply listening and note-taking skills, investigate different species of bees, compare & contrast, make inferences and connections, learn and apply new vocabulary, identify and gain information using text and graphic features, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and so 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, students will make predictions about the book.

• “The Honey Makers” Student Notes Booklet: Students will take notes in their booklets while reading the story. This activity includes 14 half pages (ANSWER KEY included).

• Print the cover single-sided and print notes pages of the booklet double-sided and select the printing option Flip on the short side.

• Honeybee Diagram: Students will label the honeybee diagram using the words in the word bank (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Honeybee Lifecycle (2 versions included): Students will explain what they learned about each stage of the honeybee’s life cycle. A cut-and-paste version is also included as an option for differentiation (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Scramble: Students use the details from the book to unscramble the words (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Who Am I?: Students will match the words in the word bank to the descriptions and draw and color a picture of each bee(ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Fact or Fiction: Students determine whether the details are facts from the story or made-up (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers ONLY): Students read the statements and determine whether they are true (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• True or False (bubble answers and correct the false statement): Students determine if the statements are true or false, and rewrite the false statements to make them true (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Cause & Effect: Students match up the causes to the effects (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• 3-2-1: Students record three details they learned about the queen honeybee, describe jobs that a worker bee has during their lifetime, and choose one word that best describes honeybees and explain why.

• 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 answer questions about or related to the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• A Beekeeper’s Yearbook: Students record one detail for each month of the of the Beekeeper’s Yearbook.

• Word Search 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).

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use the clues and the word bank to fill in the crossword puzzle (ANSWER KEYS INCLUDED).

• Honeybee ABCs: Students write words or phrases that begin with each letter of the alphabet to show what they learned about honeybees.

Research Activities: Students or teachers can choose from the following research activities and graphic organizers to use while conducting research to learn more about bees.

• KWL graphic organizer

• Honeybee - CAN - HAVE -ARE

• Honeybee - WHO - WHAT -WHERE - HOW

• Fun Facts about Honeybees

• New Vocabulary

• Honeybee Research Report: key points, picture, and summary

• Honeybee Research One-Page Report: Students conduct research to learn more about honeybees and complete a one-page report with facts regarding the habitat, features, diet, movement, and interesting facts.

• Honeybee Roll & Research: Students roll a die to see what type of bee they will research. Then, they research using teacher-approved websites and informational texts to find information to answer the questions.

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