Pigeon HAS to Go to School! Book Activities and Ideas

Pigeon HAS to Go to School book activities unit with reading comprehension worksheets, book companion printables, lesson ideas, and a craft for Kindergarten and First Grade

THE PIGEON HAS TO GO TO SCHOOL

Have you seen the new Pigeon book by Mo Willems? In The Pigeon HAS to Go to School, students will LOVE Pigeon, who's hesitant about going to school. Maybe some of your kiddos can relate?! This entertaining read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students in Kindergarten and First Grade practice essential literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!

Here are a few things that Pigeon worries about:

PIGEON HAS TO GO TO SCHOOL BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

This Pigeon Has to Go to School book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten or First Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

THE PIGEON HAS TO GO TO SCHOOL CLASS BOOK

In this class made book, students each fill in a template page explaining to Pigeon what they do at school, to reassure Pigeon that it's not scary :) This book will be a student favorite in the classroom library!

PIGEON HAS TO GO TO SCHOOL CRAFT

This writing craftivity has students writing about why Pigeon will LOVE school. The craft makes a fun Back to School bulletin board display, to showcase student learning! Two Pigeon options are included :)