We LOVE Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s books! Our book companion for her story, Chopsticks, is packed with comprehension questions, writing prompts, worksheets and activities. If you are similar with her other book, Spoon, you are sure to love this story too. It will have you and your students laughing out loud and enjoying literacy together. It’s read alouds like this one that inspires a lifelong love of reading among students. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Chopsticks have always been best friends and they do everything together. That’s how it has always been, in fact their friends can’t even think of a time they weren’t together. When they were practicing new culinary tricks there was an accident, and Chopstick snapped. The doctor told him he would need to stay off his leg for a while. After first, the two remained side by side as always. After some time though, he told his friend to venture off on his own and tell him all about the experience. At first, Chopstick was apprehensive. He had no idea what he could do on his own, however with encouragement from his friend, Chopstick went out into the world. He learned that there were many things he could do alone, and tried doing new activities.
When Chopstick was healed, the two reunited and were stronger than ever. They learned many new things they enjoyed doing together, like painting, playing music and drawing.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Chopsticks is a great mentor text for teaching students important reading comprehension strategies, writing skills, and grammar concepts. All of our book companions come with activities that relate to these subject areas. Check out just some of the skills included in our book companion!
- Practice summarizing the important events in the book..
- Have students use the book to make connections to their own lives.
- Integrate informational writing by asking students to write about chopsticks.
- Practice letter writing by asking students to write letters as if they were the characters.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on prefixes and adjectives.
- Teach a lesson on multiple meaning words.
- Discuss the importance of friendship and individuality.
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
- 30 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 resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book Chopsticks. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will also love these similar books:
- Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Spork by Kyo Maclear
- Cloudette by Tom Lichtenheld
- Elmer by David McKee
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