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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Five Busy Elves

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Use Five Busy Elves by Patricia Hegarty to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Students will delight in following these five busy elves as they get ready for their biggest day of the year. From Santa's mailroom to Mrs. Claus' kitchen, the elves stay busy and even find the time to have a little fun too! Simple rhyming text and colorful illustrations make it easy to teach readers how to use comprehension strategies to deepen their understanding of this fun holiday book.
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Making Connections with Five Busy Elves

Students will enjoy making a variety of connections to Patricia Hegarty's fun holiday story. By drawing upon their own holiday experiences along with background knowledge gained from other texts, students will learn how to make text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.4,RL.1.9,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7D,1.13E,1.13D,1.13A,1.10E,1.8C,1.8B,1.7F,1.7E,1.1A,1.7C,1.7B,1.7A,1.6I,1.6E,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Making Inferences with Five Busy Elves

Help students deepen their comprehension of this simple text by guiding them to make inferences based on the illustrations, their prior knowledge, and the author's specific description of the five busy elves as they prepare for Christmas.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7D,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.9C,1.8C,1.8B,1.7F,1.7E,1.1A,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6F,1.6E,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Five Busy Elves

Five Busy Elves is the perfect anchor text for students who are just learning to retell and summarize. Patricia Hegarty's limited cast of characters and simple story structure make it easy for beginning readers to identify the main characters, the setting, and basic events in the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.2,RL.1.3,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7F,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10A,1.9C,1.8D,1.8C,1.8B,1.8A,1.1A,1.7E,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6G,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Visualizing with Five Busy Elves

Five Busy Elves provides readers with lots of opportunities to create mental images that go beyond the pages of the text. Through connecting prior knowledge and personal experience to the text, this mini lesson teaches students why visualizing is an important skill to develop as a reader.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.3,RL.1.4,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7E,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10D,1.10C,1.9C,1.8D,1.8B,1.7F,1.1A,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6E,1.6D,1.6A,1.1C
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Rhymes with Five Busy Elves

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Five Busy Elves by Patricia Hegarty as a springboard for instruction focused on rhymes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how rhyming word families are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with rhymes.

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RF.1.3,RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Five Busy Elves

This set of vocabulary development resources for Five Busy Elves highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.1.4a,L.1.5c,L.1.6
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1.7F,1.3A,1.3B,1.3C,1.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Five Busy Elves

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Five Busy Elves.
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Running Record with Five Busy Elves

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Five Busy Elves. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

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Writing with Five Busy Elves

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.
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Making Connections with Five Busy Elves (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Five Busy Elves (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Five Busy Elves (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Five Busy Elves (Spanish)

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Writing with Five Busy Elves (Spanish)

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Title: Five Busy Elves
Author: Patricia Hegarty
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Christmas
ISBN: 9781589255616
Publisher's Summary:
As Christmas draws near, five little elves get ready for their busiest day of the year. Youngsters can follow these busy elves on a rhyming holiday adventure! Full color.
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