Elvis is King by Winter 26 Book Extension Activities NO PREP
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Description
Students will be engaged and excited to learn about Elvis Presley in this beautifully illustrated biography. This resource is filled with 26 unique activities that are perfect to use in your elementary classroom, school library, or music room.
This resource is filled with activities that will keep your students engaged. Students will have the opportunity to make connections to what they are reading, preview the text, demonstrate reading comprehension skills, analyze the text to learn more about character traits and development, and identify theme as well as problems and solutions.
There are enough activities in this resource to allow you to pick and choose which activities work best for your students. You can differentiate for the students with ease.
Description of Book From Amazon: Here's the perfect book for anyone who wants to introduce rock 'n' roll and its king to the child in their lives. In single- page "chapters" with titles like "The First Cheeseburger Ever Eaten by Elvis" and "Shazam! A Blond Boy Turns into a Black-Haired Teenager," readers can follow key moments in Presley's life, from his birth on the wrong side of the railroad tracks in the Deep South, to playing his first guitar in grade school, to being so nervous during a performance as a teenager that he starts shaking . . . and changes the world!
Activities Include:
- Cover Page
- Cover Story Pre-Reading Activity
- Making Connections Before Reading
- Let’s Take a Picture Walk (2 Activities)
- I Wonder… Formulating Questions
- Comprehension Questions and Answer Key
- Compare and Contrast Elvis and You
- Making Changes (Character Change in Story)
- Main Character Portrait
- All About Elvis
- Problem and Solution
- Making Connections: Text to Self
- Making Connections: Text to Text
- Making Connections: Text to World
- What Do You Think? Writing Activity
- Elvis Presley’s Life
- What is the Lesson?
- Elvis Perseveres
- Cover Art (Design a New Cover)
- Decorate the Guitars
- 3-2-1 Summarizing Activity
- Word Search
- Book Review (3 Options)