The Giving Tree

THE GIVING TREE

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is one of Silverstein's best known book titles. It is a poignant read aloud, with a touching story about giving. The Giving Tree, paired with these book companion activities, will help students in Kindergarten and First Grade develop and practice many essential literacy and reading comprehension skills.

THE GIVING TREE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

These book companion activities help students in Kindergarten and First Grade with story elements, character traits, making text to self connections, story retell, vocabulary, writing, making inferences, author's purpose, main idea, story retell, giving opinions and advice, making predictions, reading comprehension, and much more! 

This literacy unit can be used for whole class learning, 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 book companion for The Giving Tree will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

There are so many literacy activities included in the unit that you are able to differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

This book study unit is standards-based to meet Common Core, TEKS, and VA SOL learning standards. Learning standards charts are included in the pack!

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