Description
These We Don’t Eat Our Classmates activities give you everything you need for a full week of ELA instruction with We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins. Penelope the dinosaur is nervous to start school, and she learns it is more important to have friends than a snack.
Skills Taught
- Analyzing illustrations
- Describing characters and character traits
- Vocabulary
- Subjects and verbs, or subject-verb agreement
Reading and Comprehension
- 5 days of lesson plans for reading, vocabulary, and grammar
- Comprehension lesson tips and picture examples of all activities
- Question stems and Thinking About Reading writing prompts (2 options)
- Digital posters for analyzing illustrations and describing the main character
- Main character and problem, BME, and Classroom Pets flap-ups
- Analyzing illustrations printable
- Fiction passage: Playground Nerves (2 options)
- Nonfiction passage: Tyrannosaurus Rex (2 options)
- Comprehension check with answer key
- Describing the main character anchor chart in 3 levels
- Dinosaur craft and writing pages
- Nonfiction reader: Classroom Pets, with an anchor chart
- Goldfish directed drawing with writing pages
Vocabulary and Grammar
- Vocabulary cards, picture cards, prompts, and Match It Up!
- Vocabulary assessments in 3 options
- Daily deep dive with a mentor sentence (2 options)
- Subjects and verbs and subject-verb agreement posters, sorts, scoots, practice, and assessments
Differentiation
- Anchor charts, passages, the craft, the directed drawing, vocabulary assessments, and the daily deep dive come in options for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade
- Grammar can focus on subjects and verbs or on subject-verb agreement
Good to Know
You will need the book We Don’t Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins.
Save with the bundle: this resource is also included in Rooted in Reading: Special Editions Bundle.
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