Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst is a student favorite! Students in First Grade and Second Grade love Alexander and all the things that go wrong for him. This book, paired with these engaging activities, will help students develop key reading comprehension skills as they dig deeper into this fun story!

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Poor Alexander is having a BAD day! He just wants to run away to Australia to escape it all. But did he cause any of his own problems? Could any be avoided? Your students will enjoy the humor in this book!

This book study unit is packed with literacy companion activities that will help your students work on story elements that will aid in learning about the basic structure of the story and book.

Students will also offer their opinions and advice, work with vocabulary words from the story, and are assessed on their understanding of the story with comprehension pages included in the pack.

Students are encouraged to share their opinions about events in the story. It's always fun to compare and contrast the responses!

This pack includes activities for sharing schema, making text to self connections, recognizing problem and solution, author's purpose, main idea, and more!

Another fun activity has students imagining the story in its opposite form...what if Alexander had a Wonderful, Amazing, Terrific, Very Good Day?!

Making predictions is an important literacy skill! It shows students' ability to inference, using the pictures in the story, and to dig deep into their own insights. Students will also complete an activity where they visualize a part of the text, making a mental image of what they think it may look like.

Students will also do activities to answer questions about the story, using evidence from the book to support their answers.

Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day book activities unit of literacy printables, reading companion worksheets, lesson ideas, and a craft for First Grade and Second Grade

This book activity pack is standards based, no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

This book study can be used for whole class learning, during small group literacy instruction, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!