No More Plastic Read Aloud (Earth Day, Print and Digital)

No More Plastic, written by Alma Fullerton, tells Isley's story of how she gets her neighbours to change their thinking about plastic pollution and its impact on the ocean's wildlife.

I have included:

• YouTube link
• word list with suffix ing activity
• 4 comprehension questions in two formats
• template to write a letter to your mayor to ban bottled water
• template to write a letter to your school board to reduce or ban single use plastic packaging OR create a zero-waste lunch program (sometimes called boomerang)
• poster features, checklist, and rubric to create a poster to reduce or ban plastic packaging
• acrostic templates for NO PLASTIC or PLASTIC
• clip art of a water bottle to decorate with a message
• classroom book cover with 3 pages (favourite part, If I were Isley, Like Isley . . .)
• 3 students pages, differentiated (making connections, plastics use)
• retell organizer template with answers
• APE (answer, proof, extend) style question about how Isley changes throughout the story, with answer
• template to write an announcement about the problems surrounding plastic use, using one of the websites provided
• video and website links, for kids
• provocation involving Bill Nye’s video about plastics recycling vs response from Beyond Plastics (3 thinking questions), differentiated (or journal entry in any notebook)
• poem called Lifestyle
• plastics pledge (2 are provided and 2 are blank)
• Canadian and US spelling
• finalist for the 2022 Forest of Reading Blue Spruce Award

Thanks for stopping by. I welcome your feedback. Happy Earth Day!

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