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We even wrote the The Day You Begin comprehension questions for you! Practice reading comprehension strategies with text-based discussion questions. OPTIONAL: If you want to dive deeper into a book study, you’ll find our teaching ideas and slides make it easy to create mini-lessons, anchor charts, and slideshows.Įngage your students with an interactive read aloud by reading or streaming the picture book. Prep can be as simple as printing the activity pages (or assigning the included digital version) and finding a free video of the book being read aloud online. Simply customize your The Day You Begin lesson plans using the ideas in the teaching guide and choose from the 15 standards-based activities. YOU ONLY NEED TO DO 3 QUICK & EASY STEPS:

We constructed strategy-based reading comprehension questions and created no-prep, print-and-go reader response worksheets. We identified an SEL focus / character education topic based on events in the story.ĥ. We wrote 30 book-based writing prompts (that cover 10 genres of writing).Ĥ. We selected mentor sentences & specific grammar skills for each.ģ. We chose vocabulary words & kid-friendly definitions.Ģ. TO SAVE YOU TIME, WE'VE DONE ALL OF THE WORK FOR YOU!ġ. Read on to learn more about all that is included in this standards-based interactive read aloud packet based on the children’s book, The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson. This jam-packed book companion is quick and easy to use - Just print and go! Save yourself time and engage your students with these The Day You Begin activities.

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