
Alexander and The Terrible, No Good Very Bad Day activities and lesson plan ideas
Our Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Judith Viorst’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 inferences ☐ making predictions ☐ analyzing character ☐ point of view ☐ making connections ☐ identifying genre ☐ cause and effect ☐ author's purpose ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ friendship ☐ making good choices ☐ conflict resolution ☐ diversity ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ common and proper nouns ☐ prefixes ☐ compound words ☐ shades of meaning SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day tells the story of Alexander. From the moment Alexander wakes up, everything goes wrong! He wakes up with gum in his hair, fights with