BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN (Template)

Your Name: Genre of the Book:

Book Title: Author:

Publisher: Date:

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

2. Objectives:
SWBAT -

3. Materials/Equipment:

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:

5. Closure:
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Fiction/Nonfiction

Book Title: Each Living Thing Author: Joanne Ryder

Publisher: Gulliver Books Harcourt, Inc. Date: 2000

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

• L.PK.6 Identify animals and their homes

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Student will be able to identify animals within their homes

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Plastic animals
• Paper
• Scissors (handled by adults)
• Color pencils, crayons and markers
• Paper towel roll
• Foam paper
• Cardboard paper
• PowerPoint

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
1. We will look at a PowerPoint of the animals housing.
2. I will bring out a bucket of animals without houses
3. Students will then choose an animal house they can create for our plastic animals
4. Students will be able to use any material needed for them to do their house.
5. We will take about 25 minutes doing the activity
6. While students are doing the activity, I will place the animal around the room.
7. Once they are done, they will place it by the animal

5. Closure:
• For closure I will have the students explain what animal they chose and how they did
their house. (students have great creativity)
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Poetry

Book Title: Imagine Author: Juan Felipe Herrera

Publisher: Candlewick Press Date: 2018

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

a. 5.K.1 With assistance, use prewriting strategies to plan written work; choose and
narrow a topic to organize ideas; and explore a topic to plan written work.

2. Objectives:
SWBAT - Students will demonstrate their ability to write a letter

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Writing utensils: markers, crayons, colored pencils, stamps, etc.
• Paper- either white or colored

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• Students will be writing a little about what they want to do when they are older
o Students will be able to grad their material
o They will go sit down and either draw or write what they want to do.
o Explain to them that it can be a fire fighter or owing a house.
o You will then show them your paper with your future plans.

5. Closure:
• Everyone will come together and share what they want to be.
• We will then together pin our papers up for motivation around the classroom.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Folklore

Book Title: The Lion & The Mouse Author: Jerry Pinkney

Publisher: Little Brown and Company Date: 2009

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

• 3.PK.1 Identify a range of feelings (e.g., sadness, anger, fear, and happiness)

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will demonstrate a moment in which they were proud/happy.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Paper
• Pencil

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• I will make a model activity of a day I was proud/very happy.
• I will explain to the students as to how I felt and what it made me feel. (ex. I was excited
and happy, I was jumping around my living room.)
• I will then give them 2 minutes to think about a day they felt the same.
• We will then go around the classroom and have then tell us their emotions.
• After everyone is done, we will write someone a letter and tell them who proud we are of
them.

5. Closure:
• I will then collect the letters and before the day ends pass them out before they go home.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Modern Fantasy

Book Title: Franklin’s Flying Bookshop Author: Jen Campbell

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Date: 2017

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1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2 Grade Core Standards:
• 2.K.2 With assistance, use during reading strategies based on text and purpose to make
predictions, identify key vocabulary, and make inferences.
• 5.K.1 With assistance, use prewriting strategies to plan written work; choose and narrow
a topic to organize ideas; and explore a topic to plan written work.

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will be able to use their critical thinking skill in writing their own story.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Paper
• Writing Utensils
• Pre-made book
• PowerPoint
• Laminator
• Laminating Paper

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• (Premade book by the teacher)
• Teacher will read the book she has already made to students.
• Students and teacher will discuss about the teacher’s book.
• Teacher will then talk about the different kinds of genres there is to students.
• Students will then be able to get up and pick their own material to make a book
themselves. (Teacher will encourage to write a book without words so their classmates
can use their imagination)
• After writing their book, they can share it within their tables.
• (Teacher will then collect them and laminate them all)

5. Closure:
• The teacher will then be processed to tie all the books around the classroom so that the
next morning they can read each other’s books.
• We will then write in our journals about the book they read.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz Aguilera Genre of the Book: Cont. Realistic Fiction

Book Title: The invisible Boy Author: Trudy Ludwig

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Date: 2013

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards: (Cannot find the CCSD K-2nd Standards)
• 3.PK.2a Express feelings, needs or wants in appropriate ways
2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will be able to demonstrate how appreciative they are of each other.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Writing utensils
• Paper
4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• I explain how lovely and welcoming my class is.
• I will then be processed to discuss how “Popcorn works” (it’s where I choose one
student who starts it off then they call another until every person has been picked)
• I will explain to tell how we are going to take 5 minutes to give everyone a
compliment today.
• It can be small for example “I really like your shoes today” or “Your shirt is nice”
• I will explain how important it is to include everyone in the classroom because
when in school we all belong together.

5. Closure:
• We are going to write our favorite thing about our classroom.
• I will put them outside our classroom to show how happy the students are to be in a close
classroom.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Historical Fiction
Book Title: This is the Rope Author: Jacqueline Woodson
Publisher: Nancy Paulsen Books Date: 2013

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

a. 7.K.2 Listen to and respond to oral communication
b. 8.K.2 Use precise language to describe feelings, experiences, observations and
ideas.
c. 8.K.3 Speak clearly with prosody; Communicate personal experiences and retell
stories; Communicate a statement that expresses an opinion.

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will express interest in their classmate’s feelings.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• Students individual valuables.

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• I am going to send out a notice about bringing in something that has been
in their family for more then a year. Not something extremely valuable, we
don’t want it to use it. (This will go out the day before)
• (Day off) I will bring in a family ring that my grandmother had when
women violence was big in Cd. Juarez. I will tell them the background we
have had with our ring.
5. Closure:
• A show and tell! It’s important to show them the appreciation we have for their
background.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera

Title: Six Dots Author: Jen Bryant
Illustrator: Boris Kulikov Publisher/Year: Alfred A. Knopft/2016
Genre: Biography

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:.

• 1.PK.2 Identify the beginning sound of own name.
• 1.PK.3 Identify letters in own name.
• 1.PK.4 Recognize environmental print and symbols

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will demonstrate their ability to spell their name out in braille.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• PowerPoint
• Braille alphabet charts

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• Individual braille charts will be printed out for every student.
• We will discuss the importance of learning braille for our friends/peers.
• I will explain how today we are going to be writing our name in braille.
• We will be using glue dots so we can feel the letters.

5. Closure:
• We will be going on a walk through the hallway so the students can feel on the braille
outside the bathroom, classroom, and etc.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Genre of the Book: Informational

Book Title: What do you do with a tail like this? Author: Steve Jenkins & Robin Page

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Date: 2003

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

a. 5.K.1 With assistance, use prewriting strategies to plan written work; choose and
narrow a topic to organize ideas; and explore a topic to plan written work.
b. 4.K.1 With assistance, listen to and identify the purpose of and gain information
from illustrations, graphs, charts and titles

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will be encouraged to talk about there favorite animals with one another.

2. Materials/Equipment:.
a. Paper
b. Writing utensils
c. Coloring utensils
4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
• We will be individually writing about our favorite animals.
• We will then share it with one another inside the classroom,
5. Closure:
• Parent and student will the job of working together and the next day bring information
about this animal.
• Students will then present their “cool facts” with one another again.
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Your Name: Eliani Diaz-Aguilera Book Title: I AM HUMAN

Author: Susan Verde Illustrator: Peter H. Reynolds

Genre: Multicultural Publisher/Year: Abrams Books for Young Readers/2018

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade Core Standards:

• Growth and development by identifying physical and emotional differences of self.

2. Objectives:
SWBAT – Students will express how they are feeling today.

3. Materials/Equipment:
• No materials, just their voices.

4. Teaching:
A. Reading the book
B. Extension activity:
(This will happen during morning circle)
• We will express how the morning went
• How we are feeling right now
• Explain how we hope to feel later

5. Closure:
• Have a talk with parents at their day and have the students bring in their answers.