Family Literacy Backpacks
Family fun and learning are promoted through take-home, theme-focused backpacks. Ideas for materials and activities which can be included in these great backpacks are provided.
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English/Language Arts Academic Standards
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- Reading Comprehension
- Reading Vocabulary
Family Activities
Have some family fun! Sit down and dig in to as few or many book and activities as you choose. After you’ve had your fun, please complete the backpack evaluation form.
- Family Fun Ideas
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- Go to the Humane Society and volunteer to help care for baby animals for a day.
- Make a sock puppet of your favorite baby animal.
- Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too? Book Activities
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- Art Activity
Draw a picture of you and your mother doing an activity together. - Language Activity
Find an old photo of you as a baby. Write about something your mother did for you as a child. - Hands-on Activity
Help care for a younger child (brother, sister, cousin).
- Clifford Grows up Book Activities
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- Art Activity
Pick a season from and draw Clifford and you doing something fun. - Language Activity
Write a story about what life would be like with a very large dog like Clifford. - Hands-on Activity
Care for your pet or offer to help someone care for their pet.
- Fudge Book Activities
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- Writing Activity
Write your own adventure story about having a new puppy. - Language Activity
List ways your life is different when you have a puppy to train. - Art Activity
Draw a picture of you and 11 puppies. - Hands-on Activity
Find a picture of a puppy in a magazine and cut it out.
- Wolf Watch Book Activities
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- Art Activity
Draw a picture of you and your brothers or sisters playing. - Writing Activity
Write a story about what scares baby wolves in the forest. - Hands-on Activity
Find a picture in your baby album of your mother giving you a bath.
- Sleeping Babies Book Activities
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- Art Activity
Draw a picture of your favorite baby animal sleeping. - Language Activity
Make a list of places and ways baby animals sleep. - Hands-on Activity
Design a safe, dry place for a baby animal to sleep.
- Animal Babies Video Activities
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- Art Activity
Draw a picture of your favorite baby animal in the movie. - Language Activity
Pretend you are one of the baby animals in the movie. What kind of a letter would this baby animal write to its mother?
- Baby Beluga Activities
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- Art Activity
Draw a picture of baby Beluga and his mother playing in the ocean. - Language Activity
Write another verse to the Baby Beluga song at the back of the book. - Hands-on Activity
Find someone to help you play or sing the Baby Beluga song.
Books to Include |
- Baby Beluga
- By Ashley Wolff - Ages 7 & older
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- Clifford Grows Up
- By Norman Bridwell - Ages 6 & older
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- Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother Too?
- By Eric Carle - Ages 6 & older
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- Fudge
- By Charlotte Graeber - Ages 8 & older
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- Sleeping Babies
- By Golden Books - Ages 6 & older
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- Wolf Watch
- By by Kay Winters (Author), Laura Regan (Illustrator) (All ages)
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Web Sites for Fun |
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List of Additional Resources |
| Puzzles & Games |
- Stuffed Chicken and Baby
- toy for all ages
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Resource Link
If you are thinking of creating a literacy backpack for animals,
here are suggested resources you can include in your backpack: animals resources.
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