Milk and Juice: A Recycling Romance 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
"Milk and Juice: A Recycling Romance" by Meredith Crandall Brown is a quirky and silly tale about the love story between a Milk jug and a Juice container on their recycling adventure. Once upon a time, there lived a Milk jug and a bottle of Juice in a refrigerator. They kept each other cold on warm nights and provided great company. That is… until the bottle was empty! We see the Milk jug out looking for the Juice bottle, but they keep changing as they are being recycled. Finally, they are made into a bench together and they get to live happily ever after.
 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.
- Have students practice their questioning skills as you read the book.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Explore what onomatopoeia is and how authors use it in their writing.
- Introduce students to quotation marks and provide examples from the book.
- Use this book to discuss a variety of emotions with students and how to manage them.
- Discuss what it means to persevere and why it is important.
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.
- Greta and The Giants by Zoë Tucker
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- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
- What If Everybody Did That? by Ellen Javernick
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