Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Book Study and Craftivity

LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes is a great book to read at the beginning of the school year. It's about Lilly, who is bringing her new purple plastic purse to school for Sharing Time. But it becomes a distraction during class, and gets confiscated by her teacher! This is a good story about listening to and obeying your teacher, and using self regulation strategies in class.

This read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, helps students in Kindergarten and First Grade practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in an engaging way!

LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse is brought to school for Sharing Time. She just loves it! But her teacher sees how it has become a distraction in class. Lilly's teacher ultimately has to take the purse away from her. Lilly now is angry at her teacher and does not like school anymore. Will Lilly come around? Read the story to find out!

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 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!

LILLY'S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE CRAFT

This craftivity has students draw and write about their favorite part of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.