Little Bear Post Reading Activities

These post-reading activities for Little Bear allow students to share their understanding of characters, plots, and settings of the short stories in the book. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.

Spend some time with Little Bear and Mother Bear as they wait for Father Bear to return home. Young readers will enjoy completing these fun activities and lessons based on these delightful short stories about family. This resource is filled with tools and tactics that will help students comprehend and analyze story elements, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more. Strengthen your students' literacy skills by implementing this high-interest resource in your classroom!

Use this guide to spend some time with Little Bear and discover what he yearns for most in these lighthearted short stories. Early readers will learn to analyze these short stories through the rigorous yet engaging activities provided in this instructional guide for literature. Analyzing story elements in multiple ways, practicing close reading and text-based vocabulary, and determining meaning through text-dependent questions are just a few of the many skills students will gain from this guide. Encourage your readers to want to dig deeper with this must-have resource.

These assessment questions for Little Bear are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.

The narrator imagines how his friend--a bear named Kuma-Kuma Chan--fills his solitary days with chores and seasonal activities.

This highly practical book helps K–8 teachers implement effective reading interventions that support meaningful comprehension and engage students with interesting, age-appropriate texts. Andrew P. Johnson presents a range of strategies for addressing difficulties in the core areas of word identification, fluency, and comprehension. Packed with illustrative figures, the book provides guidance and tools for assessing reading problems, combining and adapting interventions for particular students, planning writing activities to enhance reading, aligning efforts within a response-to-intervention framework, and designing individualized education programs. Informed by current research, Johnson candidly targets "educational malpractice” and helps readers puzzle through the controversies surrounding dyslexia diagnoses and special education decision making.

Little Bear likes the teacher, other children, and activities on his first day at kindergarten, but he does not want his mother to leave.

"When the children discover a bear at the librarian's desk at story time, they think he's the new librarian. He's not!"--