Mercy Watson to the Rescue Novel Study Book Activities

MERCY WATSON TO THE RESCUE

Mercy Watson is a student favorite! Students in First Grade and Second Grade LOVE the Mercy Watson series and the stories of her adventures. Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo is a fun book as a beginner chapter book novel study. This entertaining read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way! 

MERCY WATSON TO THE RESCUE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Mercy Watson lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson. One night she climbed into their bed to sleep. Because of the extra weight, the floor began to cave in! The Watsons tried not to move to prevent crashing through to the first floor, but Mercy leaped up and out of the room. They assumed Mercy was getting help, when in fact, she was just hungry and went to look for some food. Not finding anything to eat in the kitchen, Mercy heads to the neighbor's house. Eugenia Lincoln does not like Mercy very much, and began to chase Mercy out of her yard. Mercy loves chases! Will Eugenia catch Mercy? Will the Watson's get help before crashing through the roof? Read the book to find out!

This novel study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your 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 Mercy Watson to the Rescue book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

This Mercy Watson to the Rescue book unit includes lots of activities, so you can differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for 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!

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