Description
Flight School is a great book to share with your students to talk about perseverance. It is the story of a persistent penguin who has the soul of an eagle and is determined to fly. This book companion is jam-packed with resources that provide opportunities for your students in grades 2-4 to think critically and creatively, analyze the author’s craft, and make connections to self and the real world.
This Flight School Book Companion aims to help students develop advanced readers’ skills in analyzing and interpreting literature, and writing. The questions and activities included promote big ideas, themes, and concepts and provide opportunities for students to question the author, analyze the author’s and illustrator’s craft, and make connections to self and the real world.
Questions can also be used for journaling and require responses beyond the literal meaning or the answers found in the text as they invite analysis of character, events, and interactions; synthesis of ideas, and evaluation of relationships, actions, consequences, and alternatives. Additionally, there are activities to teach language arts skills and vocabulary.
⭐⭐⭐Be sure to check out the PREVIEW to see more of what’s included.⭐⭐⭐
ACTIVITIES INCLUDED IN THIS FLIGHT SCHOOL BOOK COMPANION INCLUDE:
With so many activities, you can pick and choose the ones that best suit the needs of your students.
⭐ VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES ⭐
- Vocabulary Cards and Matching Definitions
- Word Map
- Making Sentences
⭐ PRE-READING ACTIVITIES ⭐
- What’s Going on In Your Head?
- Making Predictions
⭐ ACTIVITIES TO ANALYZE THE TEXT ⭐
- 44 Comprehension Questions
- Fact and Opinion sort
- Story Map
- 5 W’s and H
- Important Events
- Summarization – SWBS summarization activity
- Sequencing activity – Beginning, Middle, and End
- Theme – Perseverance activities
- Character Traits – Character Maps, I Am Poems, Venn Diagrams
- How Penguin Changed activity
✏️ WRITING ACTIVITIES ✏️
- Analyzing a quote
- A Book Review
- Comparing Flight School to Penguin Flies Home
- Diary Entry Writing Prompt
⭐ FLIGHT SCHOOL EXTENSION ACTIVITIES ⭐
- Informational text about penguins
HOW CAN I USE THIS FLIGHT SCHOOL BOOK COMPANION?
- Whole class instruction – as a read-aloud for youngest students
- Guided Reading Groups
- Literature Circles
- Center Activities
- Independent Study
- Language Arts Rotations
- RTI – Response to Intervention
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© Susan Morrow This purchase is for single classroom use only. Sharing this resource with multiple teachers, an entire school, or an entire school system is strictly forbidden. Multiple licenses are available at a discount.
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