Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend | Book Activities and Craftivity

SCAREDY SQUIRREL MAKES A FRIEND

Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watt is a great friendship themed book for Kindergarten and First Grade! In this read aloud, Scaredy Squirrel has NO friends because he's afraid they will be dangerous. Your students will love Scaredy Squirrel! This picture book, paired with these companion literacy activities, will have students digging deeper into the story as they learn essential literacy and reading comprehension skills!

SCAREDY SQUIRREL MAKES A FRIEND BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

In Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend by Melanie Watt, Scaredy Squirrel has NO friends. He is too afraid to encounter something so dangerous!

Scaredy Squirrel finds interesting ways to pass the time all by himself. He does many safe activities- he reads, knits, yawns, and whistles. 

One day, however, he sees something that will make a perfectly safe friend. He creates a chart of things he will need in order to make a good first impression, and then makes a plan for how to go about making the perfect friend. He then performs a risk test, as he does not want to be bitten. (Your students will LOVE his lists, charts, and tests!)

Unfortunately (or fortunately), nothing goes according to plan, yet he still makes a new friend after all! Your students will be surprised who Scaredy Squirrel's new friend is (and how they meet!)

This book companion unit for Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend is packed with reading activities that will help your students with story elements, making text to self connections, giving opinions and advice, making predictions, story vocabulary, making inferences, writing, problem and solution, author's purpose, story retell, main idea, reading comprehension, and much more!

The activities 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 study pack will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

SCAREDY SQUIRREL MAKES A FRIEND CRAFT

The Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend unit includes a craftivity where students can draw and write about how they would make a friend. The craft makes a sweet bulletin board display, to showcase student learning!

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