Two Mrs. Gibsons Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA
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This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Two Mrs. Gibsons, by Toyomi Igus.
With 35 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.
◾ Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.
◾ Descriptive Language: Students read the text below from the story and explain what the author is trying to communicate.
◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order (Viola): Students will describe and illustrate four memories of the narrator's time with Mrs. Gibson, her grandmother.
◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order (Kazumi): Students will describe and illustrate four memories of the narrator's time with Mrs. Gibson, her mother.
◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to events in the story.
◾ Character Traits: Students will choose a character trait that describes each of the characters and provide evidence from the text to support those character traits.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Narrator): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Viola): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Inside & Out (Kazumi): Students include details from the story to describe what the character says, thinks, does, and feels.
◾ Character Feelings (Narrator): Students describe the character's feelings throughout the story & give examples.
◾ Character Feelings (Viola): Students describe the character's feelings throughout the story & give examples.
◾ Character Feelings (Kazumi): Students describe the character's feelings throughout the story & give examples.
◾ Character Change (Narrator): 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 (Viola): 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 (Kazumi): 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.
◾ Compare & Contrast: Students will compare & contrast the two Mrs. Gibsons in the story.
◾ Character Acrostic Poem (Viola): Students will write an acrostic poem to describe Viola Gibson's character.
◾ Character Acrostic Poem (Kazumi): Students will write an acrostic poem to describe Kazumi Gibson's 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.
◾ 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.
◾ Wait... There's More!: Students will write about what happens next in the story.
◾ 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).
◾ All About Japan: Students will research to learn more about the country of Japan.
◾ Weekend With Mrs. Gibson: Students think about what they would do if they could spend the weekend with one of the two Mrs. Gibsons and share what they did during their time together with pictures and captions.
◾ Someone Special: Students will write a paragraph about either their mother, grandma, or a mother figure in their life and include an illustration to go with their writing.
◾ 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.
◾ My Family Tree: Students fill in the family tree with names and illustrations and then share them with the class (in COLOR and B&W).
💡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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