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When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree Activities for Reading Comprehension
When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree is a beautiful story about being grateful for the things that you have. It also shows how hard work can turn into giving and something wonderful in the end. This story would make a great book companion at the end of the school year. Students can make a lemon tree craft and share all the things they are grateful for. 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 too.
$6.00
When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree activities included:
Anchor Text:
- “When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree” by Jamie L. B. Deenihan
Reading Strategies:
- Predicting 2 options
- Characters and Setting
- Main Idea and Details 2 options
- Sequencing 8 cards cut & paste Beginning, Middle, & End 3 options
- Text Connections 2 options
- Author’s Purpose
- Fiction or Nonfiction
- Story Mapping
- Character Analysis 2 options
- My Opinion
- Question & Answer
- Key Events
- Vocabulary “disappointed”
- Features of Fiction
- Problem
- Solution
- Problem & Solution
- Check for Understanding 2 options
- Point of View
- Character Change
- Message
- Character Feeling
- Inference
- True or False
Math:
- Survey, Tally & Graph
- Tens & Ones Bingo
- Add 2 Bingo
- Subtract from 10 Coverall
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:
- My Birthday List
- What I am Grateful For List
- Retell Prewriting & Writing
- Opinion Prewriting & Writing
Craft
- Lemon Tree Craft
- Letters ”We are Growing Grateful”
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