"Snowflake Bentley" Book Comprehension Activities

This winter picture book companion is a fantastic supplemental resource for the book Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. It’s the ideal interactive read-aloud for winter or for educating your students about snowflakes, persistence, dedication, family, and pursuing their passions. Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with.

With 47 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic ability. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, sequence events from the story, write haikus, explore and use new vocabulary, discover cause-and-effect relationships, explore plot elements, investigate imagery, and much more! The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, to encourage students to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and to challenge students to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions
• Story Elements
• Problem & Solution
• Sequencing
• Timeline of Events (ANSWER KEY included)
• Cause & Effect - 2 differentiated versions included for this activity
• Study the Setting (ANSWER KEY included)
• Setting Influences the Plot
• Summarizing Main Events (ANSWER KEY included)
• Summarizing
• Plot Map
• Story Plot
• Character Inside & Out
• Character Traits - 2 differentiated versions included for this activity
• Character Change
• Character Development
• Character Summary
• Character Perspective
• Making Connections
• Making Inferences inferences they made from the text.
• Theme - 2 differentiated versions included for this activity
• Thematic Statements
• Visualizing
• Sensory Details
• Winter Imagery
• Figurative Language (ANSWER KEY included)
• Reader Response Questions (ANSWER KEY included)
• 4-Writing Prompts
• 24-Vocabulary Matching Cards
• 3-Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles (ANSWER KEYS included)
• 2-Vocabulary Word Search Puzzles (ANSWER KEYS included)
• Haiku Poem Planning Sheet
• Haiku Poem Template
• Artist Study
• Snowflake ABCs
• Wait… There’s More!
• Book Review
• Design a Book Cover

Need ideas for different ways you can implement these activities?

• Focus on different reading skills each day for targeted instruction and have students complete a corresponding printable to check for understanding.
• During centers, students can independently read the story again and complete an activity that reviews a previously taught concept.
• Work with students on a reading concept they struggle with during guided reading or strategy groups.
• Students work with a partner(s) or in literature circles to complete additional reading activities.