Quiet Please Owen McPhee activities and lesson plan ideas

Our Quiet Please, Owen McPhee Activities are now digital for distance learning with editable teaching slides and worksheets based on Trudy Ludwig'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 ☐ comparing and contrasting ☐ analyzing character ☐ analyzing illustrations ☐ cause and effect ☐ identifying theme | message | moral   ◼️ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS ☐ interrupting ☐ active listening   ◼️ GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS ☐ proper nouns ☐ pronouns ☐ articles ☐ shades of meaning   SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:  There is nothing Owen McPhee loves more than talking. In class, he is always talking to his friends. His talking causes him to miss out on important directions when making a volcano and it erupts and destroys his friend’s bridge. Owen interrupts his teacher while reading a story and h