Use Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes tells the tale of a little mouse who can't help but worry about every little thing. When the first day of school arrives, Wemberly must face her biggest worry yet. Luckily her teacher helps Wemberly and the other worried kids in her class discover ways to face the things that worry them the most. Students will enjoy making inferences, identifying the author's purpose, and connecting with this beloved back-to-school favorite that is sure to comfort every student in your class.
Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson on r-controlled vowels, grade-level vocabulary building, and an extension activity that is sure to engage students in a more personal context as they write a letter to the main character, Wemberly.
Kevin Henkes' Wemberly Worried features a young mouse who constantly worries about everything. Students will feel seen by her vulnerable character, and find that worrying too much is not good for anyone. The purposeful and repetitious writing gives readers many opportunities to think about the purpose behind this story. It offers a chance for students to consider how worrying may play a role in their own lives.
Everyone has a little Wemberly inside of them- someone who worries about the big things, the small things, and everything in between. Author and illustrator Kevin Henkes shares a loveable character with his readers, teaching students that worrying too much might hold you back from enjoying the things that matter most. Students will enjoy making many text-to-self connections throughout this sweet story of a young mouse who must face her worries one day at a time.
Through rhythmic writing, additional text within illustrations, and expressive faces and characters, Kevin Henkes provides regular opportunities for readers to infer more deeply about the text. Students will enjoy noticing the details within Wemberly Worried as they practice their inferring skills.
The simple text structure and storyline of Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes makes it an ideal read for practicing retelling and summarizing. Students will be given a chance to sequence important events, and they are sure to enjoy retelling about the characters and events in this sweet story.
Wemberly Worried lends itself to practicing this comprehension skill. From the moment students begin reading, they find that Wemberly is a very worried mouse. However, as she faces her greatest worry yet, readers will see a big change in Wemberly. Students will enjoy reading about her great transformation and will be given several opportunities throughout the story to think more deeply about this heart-warming tale.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Wembery Worried by Kevin Henkes as a springboard for instruction focused on r-controlled vowels.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how r-controlled vowels are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Wembery Worried 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.
Read Wembery Worried then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Wembery Worried. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Wembery Worried includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.
This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
In Wemberly Worried , Wemberly has all kinds of worries—big and small. With this activity, students will read her worry cards and sort them on the mat to help Wemberly organize her thoughts. This activity encourages discussions about worries and how to manage them, just like Wemberly learns in the story!
Wemberly worried about everything. Big things. Little things. And things in between. Then it was time for school to start. And Wemberly worried even more. If you ever worry (or know someone who does), this is the book for you. Wemberly worried about spilling her juice, about shrinking in the bathtub, even about snakes in the radiator. She worried morning, noon, and night. "Worry, worry, worry," her family said. "Too much worry." And Wemberly worried about one thing most of all: her first day of school. But when it's time to go back to school and she meets a fellow worrywart in her class, Wemberly realizes that school is too much fun to waste time worrying!
