Make Way for Butterfly Activities for Reading Comprehension

The Impatient Butterfly is back and this time he learns all about pollination from a Bumblebee. It pairs perfectly with The Very Impatient CaterpillarGoodnight ButterflyThe Little Butterfly That Could, Butterfly lifecycle journals, and my Plant Unit. This literature extension pack is filled with comprehension strategies that you can use and differentiate for all your learners. There are also writing and word work activities as well as a few fun math games. Students will have fun creating the butterfly and bumblebee pollinating a flower craft too.

$6.00

Make Way for Butterfly activities included:

Anchor Text:

  • “Make Way Butterfly” by Ross Burach

Reading Strategies:

  • Predicting 3 options
  • Sequencing Cut and Paste 10 2 pgs.
  • Check for Understanding 2 options
  • Fiction or Non-Fiction
  • My Opinion
  • Problem & Solution
  • Character Analysis 2 options
  • Character Feeling
  • Message
  • Main Idea & Details
  • Point of View 2 options
  • Text Connections
  • Retelling 3 options
  • Features of Fiction
  • Questions
  • Inference
  • Author’s Purpose

Math:

  • Roll & Move Pollinate the Flowers
  • Roll, Add & Cover the Flowers
  • Survey, Tally, & Bar Graph
  • Roll 3, Add and Cover Bingo

Colorful Posters

  • 6 questions on a ring
  • Main idea
  • Details/sequencing cards
  • Characters & Setting
  • Problem and Solution
  • Author’s Message 2 options

Word Work:

  • ABC Order
  • Syllables
  • Word Search
  • Vocabulary
  • Punctuation
  • Making Words

Writing:

  • This is How Pollination Works: Informative Writing
  • Retell Prewriting & Writing
  • Opinion Prewriting & Writing

Craft

  • Butterfly, Bumblebee, & Flower
  • Letters for Bulletin Board “Make Way for Butterfly”

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