The Girl With the Big, Big Questions 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
"The Girl With the Big, Big Question" by Britney Winn Lee is about the spirit of curiosity and quest for knowledge that feed the mind of the little girl in the story. She continuously asks questions, which originally seemed sweet to her friends and teachers but eventually, the people around her get frustrated with her consistent questions. At the end of the story the little girl learns to balance her questions with other resources, and finds that these questions can help to solve problems. "The Girl With the Big, Big Question" by Britney Winn Lee is the perfect story to read to students at the beginning of the school year to introduce different ways to solve problems such as ask a friend, look around the room for resources and posters, and lastly ask the teachers in the room! This is a great and entertaining read that students will enjoy and learn a lot from!
 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.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Teach a lesson on making connections to enhance comprehension.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Have students practice their questioning skills as you read the book.
- Teach students how contractions are used.
- Discuss how problem solving was used throughout the story.
- Discuss the importance of teamwork and what a good teammate looks like.
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.
- The Boy with the Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
- Oona by Kelly Dipucchio
- Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
- Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty
- The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
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