The Great Eggscape 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 Great Eggscape" by Jory John is a hilarious and egg-citing picture book that takes readers on a wild adventure inside the grocery store. During the closing hours of the store the eggs decide to escape and play hide and seek or what the eggs call it, "The Great Eggscape". All the eggs adventure into the other foods homes but one egg named Shell enjoys the peace and quiet in the carton, but gets worried for his friends when store hours start to creep up on them. Shell adventured on a hunt to seek all his friends who are hiding all throughout the store! With witty dialogue and entertaining illustrations by Pete Oswald, "The Great Eggscape" teaches children the value of teamwork, problem-solving, and thinking outside the carton. It's an egg-cellent story that will leave readers cracking up from start to finish.
 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.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Discuss the books plot and examine the problem and solution.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on interjections.
- Introduce homophones and discuss the multiple meanings of homophones in this book.
- Discuss mindfulness with students and practice a mindfulness activity with them.
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 Bad Seed by Jory John
- The Cool Bean by Jory John
- The Couch Potato by Jory John
- The Good Egg by Jory John
- The Smart Cookie by Jory John
- The Sour Grape by Jory John
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