Rescuing Mrs. Birdley 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
"Rescuing Mrs. Birdley" by Aaron Reynolds, is a story that follows a young protagonist named Miranda who watches nature adventure shows and is fascinated by the animal rescue missions in the show. One day Miranda is at the grocery store and sees her teacher, Mrs. Birdley, and is convinced that she is lost and needs rescuing. Miranda decides to follow and help bring her teacher back to her natural habitat, her classroom. As she stealthily trails Mrs. Birdley, Miranda imagines various scenarios and comes up with many different ways to trap her teacher. Miranda eventually ends up capturing her teacher and locking her up in her classroom but later sees her principle outside of school... which means she needs to start a new rescue mission. The book "Rescuing Mrs. Birdley" highlights the imaginative nature of childhood, understanding TV verses reality, and teaching students that teacher's have lives outside of the classroom!
 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.
- Practice making predictions throughout the book. Encourage students to check and see if their predictions were correct.
- Have students sequence the important events in the story. This is an important skill when it comes to retelling a story.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Introduce the purpose of adverbs and practice using them.
- Introduce pronouns and practice using them.
- Discuss what it means to persevere and why it is important.
- Discuss how problem solving was used throughout the story.
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.
- Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds
- Nerdy Birdy by Aaron Reynolds
- Creepy Carrots! by Aaron Reynolds
- Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds
- Creepy Pair of Underwear by Aaron Reynolds
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