GUSTAVO activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This GUSTAVO Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages. Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, GUSTAVO by Flavia Z. Drago, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!   THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:   ◼️READING STRATEGIES ☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS ☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER ☐ ANALYZING ILLUSTRATIONS ☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS ☐ AUTHOR’S PURPOSE  ◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ CONTRACTIONS ☐ VERB TENSE ☐ ELLIPSES ◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ FRIENDSHIP / PEER RELATIONS / MULTIPLE FRIENDS ☐ PROBLEM-SOLVING   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT: The book, Gustavo, The Shy Ghost, tells the