Volcano Rising Interactive Read-Aloud Book Companion Activities

🌋Volcano Rising Picture Book Companion: A Comprehensive Resource for Teachers

This comprehensive companion resource is designed to enhance the learning experience of students while reading the book "Volcano Rising" by Elizabeth Rusch. With 24 ready-to-use activities, this resource allows for customized learning to meet the specific needs and academic abilities of your students. It covers a wide range of skills, including listening and note-taking, understanding the formation and impact of volcanoes on Earth, making inferences and connections, expanding vocabulary, analyzing text and graphic features, and critical thinking.

⌚Engaging Activities for Students, Time-Saving for Teachers

The activities provided in this resource are engaging and fun for students, ensuring an enjoyable learning experience. As an educator, you will appreciate the time saved by not having to search for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students often struggle with.

💭Promotes Higher-Level Thinking Skills

The activities in this resource are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills. Students will be encouraged to provide text evidence to support their thinking, express their own thoughts and perspectives, and engage in analytical thinking.

🌟Resource Highlights:🌟

• Making Predictions: Encourage students to make predictions about the book before reading.

• KWL Graphic Organizer: Help students activate prior knowledge and set learning goals by filling in a chart with what they know, what they want to learn, and what they have learned.

• Volcano Rising Students Notes Booklet: Guide students to take notes while reading the story with a printable booklet. (Includes answer key)

• Main Idea & Supporting Details: Improve comprehension by identifying main ideas and supporting details. (Includes answer key)

• Word Scramble: Use details from the book to unscramble words. (Includes answer key)

• Who Am I?: Match words from a word bank to descriptions and draw and color pictures of volcanoes. (Includes answer key)

• Fact or Fiction: Determine whether details from the story are facts or fiction. (Includes answer key)

• True or False (bubble answers ONLY): Assess comprehension with true or false statements. (Includes answer key)

• True or False (bubble answers & correct the false statement): Evaluate understanding by determining if statements are true or false and correcting false statements. (Includes answer key)

• Cause & Effect: Identify cause and effect relationships. (Includes answer key)

• Parts of a Volcano Diagram: Label the parts of a volcano. (Includes answer key)

• 3-2-1: Describe different types of volcanoes, things created by volcanic eruptions, and choose a word to describe volcanoes. (Includes answer key)

• Figurative Language Match-Up: Match figurative language descriptions of volcanoes to corresponding pictures. (Includes answer key)

• Compare & Contrast: Compare and contrast creative eruptions and destructive eruptions.

• Thinking About the Text: Answer questions about the story and provide examples from the text to support answers.

• Thinking Beyond the Text: Answer questions about the story and provide examples from the text to support answers.

• Volcano ABCs: Write words or phrases related to volcanoes for each letter of the alphabet.

• Volcano Playing Cards: Create playing cards with facts and illustrations about each volcano.

• Crossword Puzzles: Solve crossword puzzles related to volcanoes. (Includes answer key)

• Word Search Puzzle: Find volcano-related words in a word search. (Includes answer key)

• Acrostic Poem: Create an acrostic poem using letters from the word "volcanoes."

• Volcano Poster: Design an informative poster about volcanoes, including illustrations, key facts, and vocabulary words.

• Fun Facts About Volcanoes: Record interesting information and fun facts about volcanoes.

• New Vocabulary: Choose four new words from the book, find their meanings, and illustrate each word.

• Book Review: Rate and review the book.

• All About Volcanoes Brochure: Research and learn more about volcanoes using provided guiding questions.

• Volcano Roll & Research: Roll a die to explore and research a specific volcano using teacher-approved resources.

This resource is designed to make teaching "Volcano Rising" easier and more effective. It provides a variety of activities to engage students and promote deeper understanding of the book's concepts.

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