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Bear Feels Sick Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Bear Feels Sick will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.

With themes of compassion, this Bear Feels Sick picture book by Karma Wilson is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!

Engage Your Students with Bear Feels Sick Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of Bear Feels Sick. You can find it in the section below.
  2. Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
  3. Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with Bear Feels Sick reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

BEAR FEELS SICK SUMMARY

It’s a windy fall day and Bear is alone in his cave. He is feeling achy and sneezy. Bear’s friends come over to see if he wants to play, but he tells them he is feeling sick. He can’t stop sneezing and wheezing and his friends find that he is feeling very hot.

Bears friends immediately start taking care of him. They ensure he is warm and cozy. Budget and Gopher feed Bear some broth and the friends make sure Bear sips some tea. Bear’s friends never leave his side.

Finally, Bear is able to fall asleep. When he wakes up, he feels so much better! Bear is ready to go outside and play. He wants to celebrate. However, that’s when his friends start to sneeze and wheeze. They’re sick now! Bear starts to take care of them right away, just like they did for him.

BEAR FEELS SICK LESSON PLAN IDEAS

Each of our 400+ Starts With a Story book companions come with a teacher’s guide to make lesson planning quick and easy, printable worksheets and digital resources that cover ALL of the standards-based reading comprehension skills.

When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for Bear Feels Sick, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.

We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

The text-based Bear Feels Sick reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • cause and effect
  • identifying theme, message, moral
  • making connections
  • rhyme, rhythm, repetition
  • summarizing and retelling

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:

  • compassion

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • synonyms
  • antonyms
  • contractions
  • nouns

BEAR FEELS SICK ACTIVITIES

You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:

  • comprehension questions
  • 30 writing prompts with themed paper
  • vocabulary activities
  • word study print & go activities
  • ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
  • social emotional learning discussion topics
  • graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
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Bear Feels Sick book and activities

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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for Bear Feels Sick?

  • Lexile® Measure: AD460L
  • Guided Reading Level: M
  • DRA Level: 20
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.5

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written by Karma Wilson. It was illustrated by Jane Chapman.

What genre is Bear Feels Sick?

It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.

How many pages are in the book?

The story is 34 pages long.

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