Everyone Loves Cupcake 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
In "Everyone Loves Cupcake" by Kelly DiPucchio, Cupcake is a charming little girl who is adored by everyone in town. With her sweet and friendly personality, she spreads joy and happiness wherever she goes. Cupcakes loves making people happy and wants everyone to love her, so she dresses to impress and cares a lot about what others think. Cupcake puts on her perfect act everyday but one day the other treats get annoyed by how perfect she is and how much she talks about it, that they all decide to ignore her! Upset that everyone doesn't adore her anymore, a kind fortune cookie decides to deliver an important message to Cupcake in which she learns that no one is perfect and the best thing you can be is yourself! In the end, Cupcake's resilience and individuality shine through, reminding everyone that there is enough love and appreciation for everyone and to just be yourself! The book celebrates the power of self-acceptance, embracing one's uniqueness, and the importance of genuine connections and friendships.
 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.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on punctuation.
- Introduce pronouns and practice using them.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on subject and predicate.
- Discuss friendship and the qualities that make a good friend.
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
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