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Reading Adventure Pack: Weather

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A reading adventure pack, featuring a fiction and nonfiction book focuses on the weather. Scholars read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett and Seymour Simon and then complete three creative activities. Participants craft paper dolls with a weather-appropriate change of clothes, cook pancakes, and draft an alliterative poem, paying close attention to the sounds of thunder.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
weather, weather types, weather changes, cloudy with a chance of meatballs, cooking, pancakes, Writing, poetry, poetry writing, alliteration, reading, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies, responding to reading, responding to literature, fiction, nonfiction, nonfiction texts
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Instructional Ideas
  • Invite pupils to share their poems with their peers
  • Display paper dolls on a weather-themed focus wall
  • Make the pack part of a unit on weather
Classroom Considerations
  • Requires Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett and Seymour Simon
  • Be aware of food allergies before the cooking portion of the pack
  • The pack is designed to be completed at home with parents or caregivers
Pros
  • Activity types meet a variety of learning preferences 
  • Reinforces the home-school connection
Cons
  • None