Sometimes, the books that leave the greatest impact on kids are the most simple and the shortest. The Easter Bunny’s Assistant is one of those books. While the story line is rather basic, students will be laughing throughout the book. It’s stories like these that show children reading can be a fun and pleasurable activity, which is so important if we want them to grow into lifelong readers. Plus, you might be surprised how much instruction you can fit into this book, despite its length. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
This book is all about the Easter Bunny and his assistant, Skunk. The two characters are here to teach readers how to decorate Easter eggs. Throughout the book, the Easter Bunny narrates the different steps for decorating an egg. Skunk is just so excited that he can’t help but cause a stink in the room. The Easter Bunny asks him to control himself, but Skunk can’t do it and the Easter Bunny removes him from the room.
Easter Bunny continues with his instructions while Skunk knocks on the window from outside. Eventually, Easter Bunny asks readers if they think he should let Skunk back in and help him hide the eggs. When the two return together, readers can see that the Easter Bunny has decided to wear a clothespin on his nose. Students will laugh out loud while reading this short but very entertaining story. Â
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Teachers, upon first glance you might not think you can use this book as a read aloud to teach comprehension or writing. However, there are so many different skills you can introduce to students using this book. We selected the strategies and skills this book is best used to teach and designed our book companion with that in mind. Check out some of our lessons that are included in our planner.
- Encourage students to make personal connections to the story and events that take place.
- Help students increase their comprehension of the book by asking them to focus on the problem and solution within the story.
- This book is a great mentor text for teaching how to writing. Ask students to take what they learned from the book and apply it to their own procedural writing.
- Ask students to write about their opinions of one of the characters and back it up with specific reasoning.
- Teach a lesson on adjectives and action verbs using examples from the book.
- Introduce students to onomatopoeia.
- Discuss the importance of self regulation.
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
There are so many different activities included in this book companion. Teachers love how easy it is to select the resource they want to use, print, and be ready to teach. The best part is there is so much variety you can use these activities across multiple grade levels and subject areas. You will be so happy you purchased this resource!
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will also love these similar books:
- The Easter Egg by Jan Brett
- Turkey's Eggcellent Easter by Wendi Silvano
- Make Way For Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
- The Good Egg by Jory John
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