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The Cool Bean Activities for Reading Comprehension
The Cool Bean is an absolutely adorable story that teaches a great message to the readers. This fun book will engage your students as they follow the Cool Bean’s journey to finding out what cool really is. The Cool Bean activities pack is filled with comprehension strategies to focus on the Common Core State Standards. There are also writing and word work activities. Students will have fun creating The Cool Bean craft too.
$6.00
The Cool Bean activities included:
Anchor Text:
- “The Cool Bean” by Jory John & Pete Oswald
Posters:
- Characters/Setting
- Main Idea/Details (retelling too)
- Compare and Contrast Sort
- Message
- Predicting
- Question Cards
Comprehension Strategies:
- Predicting
- Message
- Venn Diagram with cut and paste cards
- Point of View
- Vocabulary with context clues
- Character Analysis (2 versions)
- Character Change
- Story Mapping
- Main Idea and Details
- Questions
- Cause and Effect
- Sequencing Cut and Paste (10 items)
- Character Trait & Proof 2 pages
- Beginning, Middle & End 2 versions
- Text connections
Writing Ideas
- Now that’s cool. (Draw something that is really cool, an act of kindness) Class Book with cover
- What does it mean?
- Make a list…Acts of kindness
- Retell the story (prewriting and writing)
- What would you do? (prewriting and writing)
- Kindness is Cooler(prewriting and writing)
Bonus Features
- ABC order
- Word search
- Making words
- Syllables
*The Cool Bean Craft*
Some other fun ways to connect….
@Megan Mitchell
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