Social emotional learning is popular right now because it is so important. Teachers are trying to grow their library of social emotional learning books. A must have title for you library is The Rabbit Listened. This sweet story is great for teaching students about feelings and how to deal with them. It also lends itself to a lesson on compassion. We think teachers and students are going to love reading this book. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
One day, Taylor decides to build a tower with her blocks. It turns out amazing and she is proud of her work when suddenly her tower is knocked down. First a chicken comes to see Taylor and suggests that she talk about it, but Taylor doesn’t want to so the chicken leaves. More animals come to visit Taylor and they all have a suggestion for her. When Taylor does not want to try their suggestion, the animals leave.
Finally, a rabbit comes along and sits quietly next to Taylor. The two sit in silence until Taylor asks the rabbit to stay with her. Eventually, Taylor starts talking, then laughing, and using all of the previous suggestions. She decides she is going to rebuild the tower and that it will be amazing.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Aside from being a great social emotional learning book, The Rabbit Listened is a great mentor text for a variety of academic skills. After reading the book, we chose the ideas below as great lessons to incorporate into this book.
- Discuss the message and theme of this story. Ask students to consider what they can learn from the book.
- Analyze the plot of this book by discussing the problem the character faced and how her problem was solved.
- Have students teach about strategies people can use when they are feeling upset.
- Integrate poetry by having students write poems about feelings.
- Teach a lesson on onomatopoeia using examples from the book.
- Review adjectives and action verbs.
- Discuss different feelings and how to show compassion to others.
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
- 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
We liked The Rabbit Listened so much that we knew we had to create a book companion for it. Hopefully thanks to these lesson plans and activities it will make it easier for all teachers to use this book in their classroom.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
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