The book The World Needs More Purple People is an inspiring book for children about being your best self. The book is narrated by a young girl who is teaching readers about becoming a purple person. We think this book is a great social emotional learning book for teachers and students to talk about how to be a good person. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
The World Needs More Purple People is narrated by a young girl named Penny. Throughout the book, Penny is teaching readers how to become a purple person. She explains that purple people ask a lot of questions, laugh a lot, use their voice, work hard, and be themselves.
Readers will learn that anyone can be a purple person, no matter what they look like. The book will inspire students to be the person that speaks up to help others and work hard to get things done.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
While we love that this book is a great read aloud for social emotional learning, it can also be used to teach a variety of literacy concepts. Reads alouds are a great way to practice reading comprehension strategies, writing, and grammar skills. Take a look at some ideas for using this book in your classroom.
- Practice summarizing the important events of the story.
- Work with students to identify the author’s message for readers.
- Ask students to write about what they learned from the book.
- Integrate poetry by having students write poems about the book.
- Teach a lesson on action verbs and pronouns.
- Introduce students to quotation marks and how they’re used.
- Discuss the importance of advocating for yourself and 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
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
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