White Owl, Barn Owl Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies.

With 30 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 the facts about barn owls, 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.

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• 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 (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Summary: Students complete the Somebody, Wanted, Because, But, So graphic organizer and write a summary of the story.

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

• Making Inferences: Students use clues & schema to make inferences while reading the story.

• Visualizing: Students will read the sentences from the story and draw a picture of the images they visualized.

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

• Narrative & Nonfiction Details: Students will label each detail from the text as either narrative or nonfiction (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: Students read the details and determine if they are true or false (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Barn Owl Adaptations Match Up: Students match up the barn owl adaptations to the reasons why they're important for their survival (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• 3-2-1: Students describe three characteristics that barn owls have to help them catch their prey, name two facts they learned about barn owls, and choose one word that best describes barn owls and explain why.

• Barn Owl Diagram: Students label the parts of a barn owl (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

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

• Theme: Students answer the questions to determine which theme best fits the story and provide text evidence to support their choice.

• Making SENSE of the Text: Students read the descriptive language from the story and write the sense it appeals to the most (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Crossword Puzzle: Students use clues & the word bank to fill in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Word Search Puzzle: Students use the clues to fill in the puzzle (ANSWER KEY INCLUDED).

• Book Review: Students will rate and review the book.

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

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

• KWL graphic organizer

• Owls - CAN - HAVE -ARE

• Owls - WHO - WHAT -WHERE - HOW

• Fun Facts about Owls

• New Vocabulary

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

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

• Owl Roll & Research: Students roll a die to see what type of owl species they will learn more about. 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.