Mindful Mr. Sloth 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
"Mindful Mr. Sloth" by Katy Hudson, is about a young girl named Shasha who is impatient and always moving at a fast speed. One day Shasha hears a noice and finds a sloth on her tree house and decides they will become best friends. Shasha becomes impatient with how slow the sloth moves but problem solves so that she can still move fast and have fun. At the end of the day the big neighborhood race begins and Sasha is moving as fast as she can to win but her new sloth friend keeps stopping her to hear the birds or smell the flowers. Sasha finally stops and listens to the sloth and learns to be more in tune with her surroundings and appreciates the beauty of nature. Through colorful illustrations and gentle storytelling, the book "Mindful Mr. Sloth" teaches young readers about the benefits of mindfulness and the importance of accepting and valuing individual differences.
 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.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Identifying the theme, message, or moral is an important skill that takes a lot of practice. Use this story as an opportunity to help your students with this reading strategy.
- Introduce and act out action verbs.
- Introduce pronouns and practice using them.
- Discuss mindfulness with students and practice a mindfulness activity with them.
- Discuss patience with students and share strategies they can use to be more patient.
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.
- The Sloth Who Slowed Us Down by Margaret Wild
- The Couch Potato by Jory John
- The Lemonade Hurricane by Licia Morelli
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