When Lightning Comes in a Jar Book Companion

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book When Lightning Comes in a Jar by Patricia Polacco. It includes 28 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 thoroughly enjoy the captivating activities, and you'll value the time saved from scouring for advanced resources to address challenging reading concepts. The offered activities are crafted to foster higher-order thinking, prompt students to present textual proof for their reasoning, and inspire them to share their personal insights and viewpoints.

⭐️This Resource Includes:⭐️

• ◾ Making Predictions: Before reading the book, students 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 will describe and illustrate four 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 Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• ◾ Making Connections: Students make connections to an event from the story.

• ◾ Character Inside & Out: Students include details from the story to describe what the characters say, think, do, and feel.

• ◾ Character Feelings: Students describe how the characters' feelings change throughout the story & give examples of the events that cause them to feel the way they do.

• ◾ Character Development: Students select the character traits that best describe Trisha at different times throughout the story and provide examples from the book to support each character trait.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ 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, write about what happened there, & explain why it is important to the plot.

• ◾ Setting the Scene: Students identify three different settings in the story and explain how they know that the setting changed.

• ◾ 3-2-1: Students will list three of Trisha's favorite things about her family reunion, 2 activities from the story they would like to try, and one word that describes Trisha's family reunion.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Thinking About the Text: Students will answer the questions about the story & include examples from the text to support their answers.

• ◾ Then & Now: Students will describe something the author, Patricia Polacco, did as a young girl at her family reunions, write about something she might do at her family reunions now that she is older, and draw illustrations to go with their writing.

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

• ◾ My Special Memory: Students write about a special day or moment in their lives.

• ◾ Making Memories at the Family Reunion: Students recall the author's favorite childhood memories at the family reunion and draw illustrations with captions to describe each event.

• ◾ Families are Special: Students will brainstorm their family's traditions, things that make their family unique, and special things they do with their family. Then, they will compare and contrast their family with a classmate's family using a Venn diagram.

• ◾ Dear Patricia Polacco: Students write a letter to Patricia Polacco, the author and illustrator, sharing their reactions to the story, and asking her at least one question.

• ◾ 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.

• ◾ Family Traditions Survey: Students will answer questions about their own family traditions.

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

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