The Recess Queen Book Activities about Bullying and Conflict Resolution

THE RECESS QUEEN

The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill is a picture book for children that deals with bullying and conflict resolution (without adult intervention). It's a great springboard for making text-to-self connections and discussing self-regulation strategies. This leads nicely into focusing on how to be a good friend. Perfect for the beginning of the school year in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade!

This read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in an engaging way.

THE RECESS QUEEN BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Mean Jean is the recess bully who dominates the playground...that is, until a new student shows up! Katie Sue is not intimidated by Mean Jean at all, and this changes the dynamics at recess! This pack of literacy activities goes with the book The Recess Queen. The unit is packed with engaging and standards based book study activities that focus on bullying and conflict resolution.

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second 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 Recess Queen 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, First Grade, or Second 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 RECESS QUEEN CRAFT

This craft is a perfect follow-up activity to reading The Recess Queen! Students can think about how to be a friend, then write and draw how they would make a new friend. Boy and girl toppers are included. This craft makes a wonderful bulletin board display, to showcase student learning!