Big Red Lollipop activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Big Red Lollipop Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Rukhsana Khan's book. Read aloud the picture book then use the printables or go paperless with Google or Seesaw to practice standards-based skills.   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH: ◼️ READING STRATEGIES ☐ making predictions ☐ comparing and contrasting ☐ analyzing character ☐ point of view ☐ making connections ☐ plot | problem and solution ☐ author's purpose   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ advocation ☐ feelings   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ contractions ☐ quotation marks ☐ synonyms   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Big Red Lollipop is told from the point of view of Rubina. Rubina receives her first invitation to a birthday party, and is overjoyed to go home and tell her family about it. However, she is met with disappointment when Ami tells her that in order for her to go to the birthday party, she has to bring her little