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The Little Books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

September 21, 2020

If you need some stories to engage and entertain your young readers, look for The Little Books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. This trio includes Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink. These books put a fun spin on some common childhood predicaments that your students will enjoy! Keep reading to find some fun activities you can pair with each book.

If you need some stories to engage and entertain your young readers, look for The Little Books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. This trio includes Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink. These books put a fun spin on some common childhood predicaments that your students will enjoy! Keep reading to find some fun activities you can pair with each book.

Activities for The Little Books

Each book has a set of six discussion questions to guide your students through the book. There’s also an option for students to respond to these questions in writing.

There are six discussion questions for each of The Little Books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. You can use the cards for a whole group discussion or have students respond in writing.

 

After reading each book,  students can put the stories back together with a cut and paste sequencing activity.

After reading Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink, students can put the stories back together with these cut and paste story sequence activities.

 

There’s also a story map and a character comparison chart for each book.

After reading Little Pea, Little Hoot, or Little Oink, students can complete a story map and a character comparison.

 

Kids love finding out that Little Pea doesn’t like candy, but loves spinach! To keep with this food theme, I have created a food sorting activity and some simple logic puzzles.

After reading Little Pea, students will complete these food-themed activities. These simple logic puzzles have a cut and paste feature so students can move the food cards around.

 

Little Hoot does not like to stay up late. I decided to stick with a time theme and created these activities.

After reading Little Hoot, students will complete these time-themed activities. These focus on AM vs PM and estimating lengths of time.

 

Little Oink is a neat and tidy pig who doesn’t like it when things are out of order. For this book, students will determine the category for several lists of items.

After reading Little Oink, students will complete these organization-themed activities. There are two activities focused on categories and one ABC order activity.

 

After reading all three books, decide which is the class favorite with this graphing activity.

After reading Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink, take a poll to find your class favorite. Students will graph the results.

 

Crafts for The Little Books

This book companion includes the templates needed to create two peas in a pod, an owl, and a pig. These crafts can stand alone or be paired with a piece of writing. There are suggested writing prompts, but you can always choose your own.

After reading Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink, students can put together these writing crafts. There are suggested prompts, but you can also choose your own.

 

Digital Activities

I also have a digital option for distance learning. This includes a Google Slides link as well as a fillable student PDF.

This book companion for Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink has a Google Slides link for online learning. Students can answer discussion questions, sequence the stories, and complete themed activities for each book.

You can find all of these activities in this book companion:

This book companion for Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink has discussion questions, sequencing activities, graphic organizers, themed activities, and a writing craft for each book. There's even a Google Slides link for distance learning.

The Little Books

If you don’t already have a copy of these books in your school or local library, check on Amazon or Bookshop. The hardcover versions do go out of stock quite frequently.

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Happy Reading!

If you need some stories to engage and entertain your young readers, look for The Little Books by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. This trio includes Little Pea, Little Hoot, and Little Oink. These books put a fun spin on some common childhood predicaments that your students will enjoy! Keep reading to find some fun activities you can pair with each book.

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