One Plastic Bag activities and lesson plan ideas

Our One Plastic Bag Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Miranda Paul'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 ☐ summarize / retell ☐ plot | problem - solution ☐ identifying genre ☐ author's purpose ☐ identifying theme | message | moral   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ making good choices   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ action verbs ☐ suffixes ☐ prefixes ☐ prepositions   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: The book, One Plastic Bag, teaches readers about Isatou Ceesay and the women of Gambia. For a while in the Gambia, people were littering. They would throw plastic bags on the ground and the pile of trash was getting bigger and bigger. Time passed and Isatou grew up. One day, she learned that the goats were eating the