'Macca the Alpaca' Literacy Activities
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Description
"Macca the Alpaca" by Matt Cosgrove is a very popular picture book about an alpaca named Macca who is bullied by a llama called Harmer. It is a wonderful rhyming story with an important anti-bullying message.
You will need a copy of the picture book to make the best use of this resource.
Please note that this resource has been updated with new graphics and additional activities! If you purchased the previous version, please download this newly updated and expanded version - thank you :).
This resource includes a range of graphic organisers and hands-on games and activities to support reading comprehension (45 pages!):
- Collaborative Reading Workshop - burning questions, wonderings, connections
- Making Connections: text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world
- Thinking, feeling, justifying - inferring using text evidence x 2
- Advice for Macca regarding bullying x 2
- Sequencing – beginning, middle, end
- Sequencing – interactive noteboook page
- Sequencing events - sketching main events in order
- Describing Macca using phrases from the text (cut and paste)
- Character Traits – using evidence from the text (Macca and Harmer)
- Comparing and contrasting alpacas and llamas (Venn diagram and retrieval chart interactive cut-and-paste)
- Degrees of meaning - word cline based on bullying vocabulary (interactive cut-and-paste or sorting cards)
- Rhyming words games x 4 - Designed specifically to support this picture book.
- Last Llama Standing
- Herds
- Concentration, Snap, Fish!
- Llama Drama!
- Macca Chat - craft activity (used for asking and answering questions about the text)
- Bonus Bookmarks to promote reading.
This is an Australian picture book, therefore Australian spelling and QLD Beginners' Alphabet are used in this resource.
You may also be interested in my reading comprehension resource for Alpacas with Maracas.
All resources are for single personal or single classroom use only and are not to be distributed further. Multiple licenses are now available at TpT for a reduced price. No sharing of this resource is permitted through email, photocopying, internet groups/blogs, offline groups, school district or regional websites/servers, discussion lists, school websites/servers, or personal websites.
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