Description
Tarra and Bella: The Elephant and Dog Who Became Best Friends Activities:
Tarra and Bella: The Elephant and Dog Who Became Best Friends by Carol Buckley is a narrative non-fiction picture book. These literature unit activities are standards-aligned for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.
This is a true story about an elephant held in captivity for human entertainment. She winds up being transferred to an Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee to live out the rest of her days.
An unlikely companion on the sanctuary grounds shows Tarra what true friendship is all about. What a sweet, sweet story!
This Tarra and Bella file includes activities in the following areas:
- genre
- character, setting, plot
- sequencing
- opinion writing
- vocabulary
- compare/contrast
- parts of speech
- research
- fact/opinion
- comprehension
- summarizing
- making inferences
- writing a newspaper article about unlikely friendship
- friendship
Answer Keys are included where deemed necessary.
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This file contains 41 PDF pages + Google Slides™.
Trudy C –
My students loved this!
Shannon S –
During Distance Learning last year, students worked on the character and setting sheet for the story after I read it to them. I love the graphic organizers this resource provided. This year we are in person and I’ll get to use them in the classroom this time too!