Do Unto Otters activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Do Unto Otters Activities is now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Laurie Keller'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 ☐ summarizing and retelling ☐ point of view ☐ making connections ☐ identify the main idea ☐ author's purpose ☐ identifying theme, message, or moral   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ problem-solving ☐ taking ownership   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ plural nouns ☐ adjectives ☐ contractions ☐ homophones   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: Mr. Rabbit finds out he has some new neighbors, the otters. He is a little nervous because he doesn’t know anything about otters. Thankfully, an owl is there to teach him about an old rule: “treat otters the way you want otters to treat you.” This causes Mr. Rabbit to think about how he would like