Trickster tales have always been popular in children's picture books. Today, we are spotlighting one of the best trickster tales to use in the classroom, My Lucky Day. We love that this book lends itself to teaching so many skills across a number of grade levels. This book is sure to keep your students engaged throughout the whole read aloud. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
The fox thinks that it is his lucky day when a piglet shows up on his doorstep. He doesn’t even have to go out hunting! His food has come and found him. He pulls the piglet inside and prepares to eat him.
Now this piglet is a very smart piglet. He gets the fox to bathe him, feed him, and massage him. It makes the fox feels so sleepy that he falls asleep and the piglet escapes with his cookies.
When the piglet gets back home, he relaxes by the fire, eats his cookies, and figures out who he will visit the next day.
Students will love this story about a tricky piglet and an eager fox.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Here are some teaching ideas for the book My Lucky Day:
- Practice sequencing the events of a story.
- Retell the important events the book.
- Ask students to write their opinions about the trick in this book.
- Have students write a letter to one of the characters in the book.
- Use examples from the book to teach a mini lesson on interjections.
- Practice identifying and using action verbs.
- Teach students about different strategies for problem solving.
- Have a class discussion about expectations.
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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- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
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