Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree Read Aloud Book Companion Activities

This picture book companion is a complete supplemental resource for the book Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree, by William Miller.

With 31 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic abilities. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, determine the theme, practice plotting story events, compare & contrast, make predictions, inferences, & connections, answer questions that require them to think beyond the text, and much more!

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. The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, encourage them to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and challenge them to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• Making Predictions
• Story Elements
• Making Inferences
• Making Connections
• Sketch a Scene From the Story
• Setting Influences the Plot
• Summary
• Theme
• Story Event Sort
• Character Traits
• Character Inside & Out
• Character Feelings
• Character Development
• Overcoming Obstacles
• Character Change
• Character Acrostic Poem
• Character Influence
• Author’s Message
• Thinking About the Text
• 3-2-1
• Sensory Details
• Timeline of Zora Hurston’s Life
• Dear Diary
• Book Review
• Biography Brochure
• Biography One-Pager
• Vocabulary Word Search Puzzle
• Investigating Images
• 3-Writing Prompts