Reading Flip Booklets

Our district uses Reading Street as our Reading Adoption and there are some really fun stories included in the series.  A few class favorites are always Henry and Mudge and The Bremen Town Musicians.  I created a simple little flip booklet to go along with a few of these Reading Street stories. The Henry and Mudge flip booklet works great with any Henry and Mudge book.  The flip booklets focus on story elements and when put together, turn out super duper cute!  I simply staple the sides once they are completed.  They also make a great portfolio piece.  You can click the images below to check them out in my shop.

  

 I'd love to give a flip booklet to the first 3 people that comment below.  Simply leave your e-mail and choice of a flip booklet above  (Giveaway has ended).   Happy Summer!

Reading Street- Desert Stories

In our grade level, we pull a lot of great literature from here, there, and everywhere.  One of our go-to resources is our Reading Street adoption. Our last 2 stories had a desert setting, and this really got our students thinking about this fantastic habitat.

Our first story was a drama titled, The Strongest One.  They really enjoy this repetitive story of a little red ant who set out into the desert to find out who the strongest one is.  I was super excited when I happened upon a great second grade blog called, iintegrate technology.  She has fabulous second grade resources to go along with the Reading Street adoption.  I love the 10 Important Sentences template she created.  You can check it out here.  She even posts her documents in a Smartboard file, so you can modify them as needed.  We used the Smartboard to check our work. 

In The Strongest One, a little red ant stops and talks to a variety of things/animals along the way.  We visualized and illustrated each time little red ant stopped and spoke to someone new.  I think they came out super cute.  They put a lot of effort into their illustrations, and I think it really helped them remember the story better!

 

 
The following week, we read, A Walk in The Desert.  They were able to make a lot of great connections to The Strongest One, especially in regards to the setting.   We integrated science, and talked about animal adaptations.

We also recorded what we added to our schema about deserts on the freebie below. It would go well with any read aloud about the desert.

Henry and Mudge...

Last week we read Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night.  My students always love this story! They are able to make so many great connections to Henry and Mudge.  Thought I'd share a few of our activities.

This activity is from my Mental Imagery 6pk.  You can check it out here.

 The bones in the activity below are from Teacher Created Resources.  Click here to head on over to their site to check out this great freebie.  They actually go along with the story Clifford, but worked perfectly for Henry and Mudge.  I just added some Mudge clip art and the title. You can get the title below.

I had to post the picture below of my sweet Emma's mental images.  Oh my gosh...her pictures are super cute!  This template is not in my mental imagery pack.  It is a template by Debbie Miller.  She discusses it in her book, Reading with Meaning.  Which is a MUST read!!!

They also use the template above to write a friendly letter to a character in the story.  My students use this template weekly in their reading journals.  You can get the template for free below.