Smarty Activity Reading Strategies This is a product of Cyndie Sebourn and Sascyn APP: Penelope the Purple Pirate Activity Title: Reading Strategies Approximate Grade Level: 1-3 Subject(s): Language Arts: Reading Strategies Discussion Questions with Deeper Thinking Text-to-Self When you go to bed for the night or for a nap, you have the opportunity to go on an awesome adventure by daydreaming. Think of all of your daydreams. Which one is your favorite? Tell us the story. Text-to-Text How are Penelope the Purple Pirate and Treasure Kai and the Lost Gold of Shark Island alike? How are they different? Have an adult help
you create a Venn diagram to demonstrate their similarities and differences. Text-to-World Do you know any true stories about pirates or hidden treasures? Who were the pirates? What was the treasure? Main Idea - One lesson that you learn from this story is Each friend is special in his or her own way even if he or she is different like Penelope s friends are. Friends are very special to us. If everyone were exactly alike, the world would be boring. 1. How many friends does Penelope take on her adventure? 2. What are her friends names and how is each friend different or special? 3. Do you know anyone who is different? How is that person special to you? 4. In one complete sentence, tell me a lesson that you learned from this story. For example, Each friend is special in his or her own way. Did you learn a lesson about taking naps? About obeying your parents? About adventures? Author s Purpose - Why do you think the author wrote this storybook app? What did she want to teach you? Inference Treasures do not have to be money or jewelry. Treasures can be friendship, love, and kindness. What are things in your life that you treasure? Why do you treasure them? Do you think the things that you treasure are things that Penelope would treasure, too? Why? Cause/Effect: Penelope s mother tells her to take a nap. Even though Penelope does not want to take a nap, she obeys her mother. What is the result of Penelope taking a nap? How does it make her mother feel? How does it make Penelope feel? Why?
Visualizing: Look at the illustration for when Penelope runs down the plank, grabs her knees, and splashes in the water. What does the art show about the dolphin s, the turtle s, and the octopus s personalities? Look at the sky and the water; what kind of weather is it? How does the art make you feel? Now let s change the picture. Draw a picture that makes you feel very different. What are Penelope and her friends doing? What is the weather like? Questioning: Colors are important in our lives. Purple reminds us of important people, of mystery, and of magic. Penelope s favorite color is purple. 1. How does she become an important person? 2. What is the mystery in this story? 3. How is this story magical? 4. What is your favorite color and how does this color make you feel? 5. If Penelope had a second favorite color, what do you think it would be? How would this color make her feel? Predicting: A dolphin, an octopus, and a turtle are the sea animals in this story. Read the Fun Facts about these sea animals and describe them. Now predict where they go and what they do when the story is finished! Synthesize: Penelope and her friend build a sandcastle. Friends can have a lot of fun making things together, so you can now be like Penelope and build something with a friend. What is something you would like to make with a friend? Some ideas to help you start thinking are 1. A kite? You could use wood strips, glue, paper, and a string. Design a picture on the paper!
2. A playhouse? You could throw a blanket over chairs! 3. A flowerpot? Paint the outside of a pot and plant garden or flower seeds in it! 4. A painting? Who or what do you love the most? Paint it! 5. A story? Create three events that happen in this story. What happened first? What happened next? How does the story end? Write many details about each of these parts of your story. Moral: A moral or a lesson that one learns from this story is that it is important to share. What does Penelope share with her friends? What does this tell you about her personality? What is an example of something you have shared? How did it make that person feel? Illustrating: Penelope s sea friends each have different or special qualities. Create and draw a picture of another animal that is also different or special. Reading Fluency: When you see the words of the story and listen to someone read the story to you, you become a better reader. Let s practice being an awesome reader! 1. Watch the words as Penelope the Purple Pirate is read to you. 2. Now, turn off the narration, and you read the story, and record yourself reading it. 3. Listen to your recording. If it sounds good, GREAT! If you could do better, record yourself again! Keep practicing! Summarize: 1. If you had to write this story in your own words, how would it read? Finish the sentence starters below:
Once upon a time Penelope decided that it would be fun to She took her friends on the adventure because It all ended when Common Core Standards: RL.1, RL.2,RL.7, RL.9, RFS.4, W.3, W.8, SL.1, SL.2, L.3, Bloom s Taxonomy: Remembering: list, describe, write, and draw. Understanding: predict, compare, summarize, and visualize. Applying: show, illustrate, and choose. Analyzing: compare, contrast, identify, and explain. Evaluating: select and choose. Creating: compose, predict, and imagine.