Wolfie the Bunny 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
"Wolfie the Bunny" by Ame Dyckman is a delightful and humorous children's book that explores the themes of family, acceptance, and unconditional love. The story follows Dot, a bunny, and her family who discover a wolf cub on their doorstep. Despite their initial concerns, Dot's parents decide to adopt the little wolf, much to Dot's disbelief and apprehension. Dot is convinced that Wolfie will eat them all up, but as they spend time together, she realizes that appearances can be deceiving. Through clever and expressive illustrations, the book showcases the bond that forms between Dot and Wolfie as they navigate sibling dynamics and unexpected adventures. "Wolfie the Bunny" delivers a heartwarming message about the power of love and acceptance, teaching young readers the importance of embracing differences and finding common ground. By the end of the story, Dot and Wolfie's relationship blossoms, showing that family is defined by love, not by species.
 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.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Introduce and act out action verbs.
- Teach students how contractions are used.
- Discuss the importance of self-advocacy and strategies students can use to advocate for themselves.
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
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