When I Was Young in the Mountains Read Aloud

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant. It includes 26 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, making this resource 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 be captivated by the stimulating activities, while educators will value the saved effort in searching for premium resources to tackle complex reading concepts. The activities on offer aim to promote advanced cognitive skills, urge students to cite textual justifications for their conclusions, and motivate them to articulate their personal opinions and views.

⭐️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.

• ◾ Recalling Events in Chronological Order: Students will describe and illustrate four events from the story in chronological order.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Author's Message: Students describe four important events from the story in chronological order and answer the questions about the author's message.

• ◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to events in the story.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Setting Swap: Students draw a scene from the story in a beach setting and a desert setting. Then, they explain what would change and what would stay the same.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out: 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 Change: 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.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ 3-2-1: Students will list three challenges, 2 activities from the story they would like to try, and one word that describes life in the mountains.

• ◾ Compare & Contrast: Students will compare and contrast what life was like long ago to what life is like now using information from the story and background knowledge.

• ◾ Then & Now: Students will describe something that the narrator did when she was young and in the mountains. Then, describe what they think she does now, as an adult, when she's in the mountains.

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

• ◾ Someone Special: Students write a paragraph about a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, or someone special in their life and describe what makes them unique.

• ◾ Memories in the Mountains: Students recall the author's favorite mountain memories from her childhood, draw illustrations with captions to describe each event, and include information from the story as well as their own imagination.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ 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).

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

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