Bunheads is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below!. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
"Bunheads" tells the story of Misty Copeland who finds her love for dance after hearing the story of Coppélia from her dance teacher. Misty listens to the toymaker and doll story and becomes intrigued with the plot while also realizing that even though she had never danced before, that ballet is a natural talent of hers! After being told the story, Misty's dance teacher holds auditions for their very own Coppélia dance routine where Misty and her friend Cat shine in leading roles! "Bunheads" is an inspiring and empowering memoir that highlights the importance of representation and diversity in the arts, while also teaching readers to always try new things and to never give up on your dreams!
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Practice making predictions throughout the book. Encourage students to check and see if their predictions were correct.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Teach a lesson on making connections to enhance comprehension.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Teach a lesson on multiple meaning words using examples from the story.
- Find examples of antonyms in the book.
- Explore prepositions and how they describe nouns or pronouns.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o
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- Not Quite Snow White by Ashley Franklin
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