Turkey's Sandtastic Beach Day Lesson, Book Companion, and Craft
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Turkey's Sandtastic Beach Day by Wendi Silvano is a perfect addition to your summer-themed read aloud time! Designed for primary students, this comprehensive lesson plan is full of engaging opportunities for sequencing story events and retelling. This download is loaded with options to customize for the perfect-fit lesson for your students. A wide variety of book companion activities (including differentiated nonfiction AND a craft) can be done at a time that works best for your class!
Lesson Objective: Students will be able to retell Turkey's Sandtastic Beach Day by sequencing key events.
Several options are included, allowing students to sequence story events:
- text dependent questions
- Beginning, Middle, and End graphic organizers to sequence key events (space for sketching and labeling)
- Sequencing organizer to identify and sequence key events in more detail
- These graphic organizers include printable parts to make a large anchor chart to complete whole group for younger readers and writers
- Hands-on retelling: story event cards (multiple versions: words only, words with pictures, pictures only) for students sequence and practice orally retelling after reading text or during learning centers. All in color and black/white.
- Cut and paste picture Sequencing (3 versions...see preview)
- Transition words and story elements cards
- four differentiated assessment options for written retelling (rubric included)
At the end of the lesson, students will answer the following question independently: Think: What happened when Turkey went to the beach?
Write: Retell the story from beginning to end. Include key events in Turkey’s Sandtastic Beach Day.
**Be sure to check out the preview of this lesson for a more in-depth look, including differentiated options for YOUR students!**
For the lesson, teacher resources include:
- teacher guide with skill rationale/teacher language,
- lesson plan with stopping points,
- text-dependent questions (and scaffolding questions for each),
- expected student responses,
- post-its to print questions and place in book for easy reference during the lesson,
- large printable form of the essential question, student friendly objective, and questions to post for visual learners
There are tons of extras and extensions to be used after the lesson for more fun and learning!
- Vocabulary word cards - 5 from the story and 4 blank cards
- Infer vocabulary meaning and context clues graphic organizer
- Vocabulary activity options
- Photographs representing each vocabulary word
- Multiple Choice Quiz
- Write and illustrate - What was Turkey's day at the beach like? Two line styles included.
- Answer WH? questions about key details in the text by cutting/ pasting pictures.
- Identify objects Turkey saw at the beach.
- Describe the problem and solution. There is space to write and draw.
- Reading comprehension cut and paste activity.
- Infer the meaning of sentences in the story that are a play on words.
- “Write the Room” with 8 picture/word cards from the story and three recording sheets.
- Count syllables of words from the story.
- Make new words using letters in "beachcombing".
- Read and sort Long e words (sheep and beach are from the story).
- Unscramble sentences from the story. Read the model sentence, build, and write the sentence.
- Compound word match (beachball is from the story)
- Illustrate and write in response to the prompt: "My Sandtastic beach day". Two versions included.
- Make text-to-self connections with story events. Two options included.
- Read a nonfiction passage about the beach as a nonfiction connection to the story and answer comprehension questions. Three differentiated levels are included.
- Photographs/word cards of beach vocabulary from the story.
- Turkey Craft
- Coloring Page
Thank you for checking out this lesson plan! Please let me know if you have any questions before purchasing.
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