Knight Owl 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
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SUMMARY
"Knight Owl" by Christopher Denise shares the story of a young owl who has always dreamed of becoming a knight. Owl's dream comes true when knights start disappearing from the castle and they need help protecting it from the monster capturing all the knights! Owl gets accepted into Knight School but struggles during different tests and activities but he never gives up and perseveres to overcomes his setbacks and difficulties. After working hard and persevering owl graduates “with honor, as all knights do" and becomes the knight hero at the end of the story. "Knight Owl" is an inspiring and heartwarming story that brings readers on a positive journey teaching them to work hard and to never give up!
 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.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Introduce and act out action verbs.
- Â Introduce homophones and discuss the multiple meanings of homophones in this book.
- Discuss how problem solving was used throughout the story.
- Discuss examples of how a character in the story displayed courage.
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.
- Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton
- Owl Babies by Martin WaddellÂ
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
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