A Combination Book Study: Crazy Hair Day and Bedhead!

     Two of my FAVORITE books to read aloud and spend time on are Crazy Hair Day (Barry Saltzberg) and Bedhead (Margie Palatini).  These books complement each other really well.  They have similar settings, themes, and characters.  These two boys have some real "bad hair" troubles!  It's also picture day in both stories!  While Crazy Hair Day has a ending that shows caring and friendship, Bedhead just shows how hard it can sometimes be just being a kid!  Both stories will bring giggles and empathy from your students!  Have you introduced onomatopoeia yet this year?  You may want to use Bedhead to do just that!  This unit has a great set of activities to work on with partners, in stations, whole class, or independently!  I have also included directions for a foldable.

 

On very special page in the unit deals with the special language created by Margie Palatini's, Bedhead.  There is a great page on some of the idioms and phrases from this story.  Students have to discuss and then match these phrases from the story!  Below is a sample of part of that page. 

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Great Books

I have my favorite books for sure.  I think I'd be sad if a year went by and I didn't get to use all of them! I have created some book units to go with some of them.  Ruby the Copycat is one of my all-time favorites. It'a about a new student, Ruby, who tries to fit in by copying another student.  She finds out that it's not a very good way to make friends. There is so much to talk about as her relationship with Angela changes over a few days of copying her.  The theme teaches kids how to be themselves and that everyone has something that they do well.  In my unit, there are prereading questions to discuss, story elements, an assessment, and Hannel's type questioning strategies.  Ruby has been my all-time best seller!  Get it on TPT or my new store at Buy Sell Teach!

Pinkie Leaves Home

 Another favorite is called Pinkie Leaves Home. A little penguin named Pinkie loses all of his feathers in an oilslick.  He solves his problem in a very "cool" way!  It features several settings and all of them help to lead Pinkie through the plot.  You can find it in my TpT store.  If you need to tie in science (environment/wildlife) to a great story, this book is wonderful!