The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend is a wonderful book for kindergarten, first and seconders. It is an imaginative story about a world of make believe characters. It is a great choice for teachers looking for a book to teach students about friendship. Plus, if your students have seen the movie, they will be so excited to read the book. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
Beekle has a problem. Children in the real world have imagined all the other imaginary friends besides him. He is the only one left on Imaginary Friend Island. Instead of waiting for a child to imagine him, Beekle decides to go out to the real world and find his friend himself.
Beekle travels to the real world, and is the first imaginary friend to do so. He finds his way into a park with children playing with other imaginary friends. Beekle climbs to the top of a tree and waits for a friend to find him. He is sad when everyone goes home, and then he hears someone say hello. His real world friend has finally found him!
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
You might consider using The Adventures of Beekle to teach the following skills:
- Practice making inferences and predictions while reading the story.
- Determine the problem characters in the story faced and how it was solved.
- Let students get creative and write their own story about one of the imaginary friends in the book.
- Integrate descriptive writing by asking students to write a description of one of the characters.
- Practice identifying prepositions and identify their purpose.
- Teach students how to change verbs from present to past tense.
- Discuss how bravery is a theme in the story.
- Have students discuss the qualities of a good friend.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
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- 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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