Hey, teachers! Are you looking for a read aloud for Easter? We love Jan Brett’s book The Easter Egg. It has an adorable story line paired with the beautiful illustrations Jan Brett is known for. Her books lend themselves to so many reading comprehension skills so we are always excited to use them for a book companion. There are not too many Easter books other there that lend themselves to a thoughtful lesson like The Easter Egg does. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
It is almost Easter and this is the first year that Hoppi will be decorating an Easter egg. Each year, the rabbits decorate eggs and the Easter Rabbit selects the best one. Whichever rabbit decorates the best egg gets to help the Easter Rabbit hide the eggs on Easter morning.
Hoppi is trying to decide how he will decorate his egg. He visits many other rabbits and observes what they are doing with their eggs. Rabbits carve eggs out of wood, make chocolate eggs, paint their eggs, and plant flowers in them. Hoppi cannot think of a special way to decorate his egg and goes into the forest to rest. While in the forest, Hoppi witnesses a Robin egg fall out of the nest. Mother Robin is distressed so Hoppi steps in and sits on the egg to keep it warm and safe.
On Easter morning the Easter Rabbit arrives and admires all of the eggs, but says that a special one is missing. He returns with Hoppi, who has won the contest for keeping the robin’s egg safe. He gets to ride in the wagon with Easter Rabbit to hide the eggs.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
The Easter Egg is one of our Starts With a Story book companions. Like all of our resources, this book comes with reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, grammar lessons and social emotional learning discussion ideas. Check out some of the topics addressed in the lesson for this book:
- Teach students to visualize the story as you read. This will help them to have a better understanding of the story.
- Practice analyzing the setting and ask students to consider how the story would change if the setting were different.Â
- Ask students to write about their opinions on the eggs in this book and back up their opinion with reasons.Â
- Integrate descriptive writing by having students describe a decorated egg.Â
- Teach a mini lesson on plural nouns and singular nouns.
- Practice identifying the base of a word.Â
- Discuss the importance of showing compassion.Â
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 resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book The Easter Egg. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.Â
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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- The Easter Bunny's Assistant by Jan Thomas
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