Social emotional learning is so important and read alouds are a great way to teach these skills. Enemy Pie is one of our favorite books for teaching social skills. It is great for elementary students and teaches a very important lesson. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
The main character in this story has an enemy, and his name is Jeremy Ross. He is his enemy because he laughed at him when he struck him out at baseball, and he invited everyone to his trampoline party besides him. The boy goes to his dad about having an enemy, and his dad says that he has the perfect way to get rid of enemies, enemy pie. His dad says that the boy just has to spend the day with Jeremy.
The boy is hesitant at first, but ends up going to Jeremy’s house to ask if he can play. The boys spend the day together and discover that they have a lot in common, and enjoy spending time together. When the boy’s dad has them come in for dinner and serves them enemy pie, the boy panics and tells Jeremy to not eat it. The boys are officially no longer enemies, and have developed a great friendship.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Enemy Pie can also be used as a mentor text to teach a variety of academic concepts.
- Teach students how to identify the message or moral of a story.
- Practice inferencing, this is an important skill for young readers.
- Integrate narrative writing by asking students to write about their personal connections to the story.
- Write a book about how to make enemy pie.
- Introduce students to articles.
- Review nouns and pronouns.
- Lead a class discussion on friendship.
- Teach students about the meaning of empathy.
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
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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