Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Bippity Bop Barbershop 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 bravery and individuality, this Bippity Bop Barbershop picture book by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 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 Bippity Bop Barbershop Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Bippity Bop Barbershop. You can find it in the section below.
- 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.
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BIPPITY BOP BARBERSHOP SUMMARY
Bippity Bop Barbershop is about a boy named Miles who is about to get his first haircut. His Daddy brings him to where he always gets his haircut, Mr. Seymour’s Barbershop. Miles is amazed by all the different people, noises, and hairstyles at the barbershop. He looks around to find the right haircut for him.
Miles’s Daddy and the other people at the barbershop keep telling Miles to be brave. When it is Miles’s turn to get his haircut, he ducks under his cape when the clippers come too close to his head. Miles’s Daddy helps him be brave by telling him to think of being giant and superheros. Miles thinks of his dad instead, and is able to get a haircut he loves.
Students will love this story about a boy who is experiencing a barbershop for the first time.
BIPPITY BOP BARBERSHOP LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based Bippity Bop Barbershop reading comprehension questions focus on:
- summarizing and retelling
- analyzing illustrations
- analyzing character
- making connections
- ask and answer questions
- figurative language
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- bravery
- individuality
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- onomatopoeia
- proper nouns
- compound words
BIPPITY BOP BARBERSHOP 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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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS
What are the reading levels for Bippity Bop Barbershop?
- Lexile® Measure: AD630L
- Guided Reading Level: O-P
- DRA Level: 34-36
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.5-3.7
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley. It was illustrated by E. B. Lewis.
What genre is Bippity Bop Barbershop?
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 32 pages long.
