The Big Umbrella- Book Study

We completed a new book study. We spent our reading group time reading The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates. We previewed new vocabulary that would be in the book. Then we read the book and did a sequencing activity with a top down web. Students had to put pictures of the book in the correct category. We used a top down web and students had to sort the pictures into events that happened from the beginning, middle or end of the book. We then had a discussion about The Big Umbrella and talked about characteristics of the Big Umbrella in the story. We read The Big Umbrella again and then the students chose a picture from the beginning, middle and end of the book and wrote about the pictures that were chosen. The the students then put together a scrambled sentence about the umbrella. The students used two column notes to organize their thoughts and then drew and wrote about the umbrella they would design.