4 award winning picture books that honor GRANDFATHERS include: How to Babysit a Grandpa, Grandpa Green, Grandfather Buffalo, The Beeman and A Walk with Grandpa.
The units include 53-pages of activities that are perfect for individual, paired, group, or whole class study for grades K-3, duplicate handouts or projection on your electronic board.
How to Babysit a Grandpa Contains:
- Pre-reading Discussion Cards;
- 2-page Readers Theater Script;
- Identifying and Using Shapes to Create Pictures;
- Picture Graph;
- A Building-Block Challenge;
- Confusion: Unscramble Their Words Fun with a Crossword Puzzle;
- Answer Page;
Grandfather Buffalo includes:
- Crossword Puzzle;
- Readers' Theater Script;
- Discussion Cards;
- Multiple Choice Comprehension;
- Developing Character;
- Story Mapping; and
- Answers;
Grandpa Green includes:
- Pre-Reading Discussion Cards;
- Curriculum Connections for Younger Students including colors,
- songs and finger plays, science, art, fairy tales, health; veggie flower snack, writing, math, social studies, and interviews; Checking Understanding;
- My Favorite Things to Do with Grandpa Book;
- Family Graph;
- Caldecott Connections,
- Illustration Techniques,
- Illustrators;
- Dot-to-Dot;
- Answer Page;
The Beeman includes:
- Two Readers Theater Scripts;
- Multiple Choice Comprehension;
- Crossword Puzzle;
- Editing Practice/Letter Writing;
- Writing Rubric;
- Pre-Writing Planning "My Life as a Bee";
- Comparing Books;
- The Life of the Queen Bee;
- Answer Page
A Walk with Grandpa offers Spanish-English connections and a verbal guessing game.