Read Aloud Series: The Snowy Day

I’m so excited for this week’s featured book, The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. This book is perfect to read in winter and  it is great for teaching all about multiculturalism (Keats was one of the first authors to use an urban setting in his stories). All of his books are darling, but this one holds a special place in my heart. I have read it countless times and it never gets old My students loved making text-to-self connections to the book by brainstorming all of the things we love to do in the snow.

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Then, we made our own visualizations while reading the story.

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Afterwards, I gave them this little poem I wrote and they drew their visualizations using chalk. We compared our visualizations to The Snowy Day. They loved this!

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Here is one of my student’s visualizations of the poem. I love her creativity.

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You can download the poem and visualization activity page for free here. Want more ideas? Click here for more activities that correlate with great winter books.

8 Comments

  1. Becky
    January 18, 2013

    Wow! Your girl is so artistic! I love it!

    Thanks for the freebies. Snowy Day is a great book!

    Becky
    Compassionate Teacher

  2. Lisa Mattes
    January 18, 2013

    Oh, Lyndsey, you have done it again. Snowy Day is such a special book. Your poem is precious. Your work knocks my socks off. For real. Thanks so much for sharing! Lisa
    Growing Firsties

  3. chelsearose
    January 18, 2013

    So cute! LOVE the snowy day! And your blog! Thanks for sharing!

  4. Ms. Kerri
    January 18, 2013

    Love these ideas for The Snowy Day. Thanks for sharing.
    Ms. Kerri and her Krazy Klass

  5. Lori Rosenberg
    January 19, 2013

    You can definitely add poet to your many other talents! Thanks for sharing the poem!
    Ѽ Lori
    Teaching With Love and Laughter
    luvyorkies@gmail.com

  6. Miss Trayers
    January 20, 2013

    One of my favorites too. My kiddos don't see snow, so I love when books talk about the activities kids do for fun in the snow! Love comparing it to the poem-very thought-provoking.

    NotJustChild'sPlay

  7. Mrs. Leeby
    January 21, 2013

    You are a super teacher! I love your stuff! I'm having the easiest gift card giveaway ever. You should come enter.

    Irene

    Learning With Mrs. Leeby

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