Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Brave Every Day 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 growth mindset and worry, this Brave Every Day picture book by Trudy Ludwig 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 Brave Every Day Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Brave Every Day. 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.
- Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with Brave Every Day reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
BRAVE EVERY DAY SUMMARY
The story Brave Every Day is a story about a girl name Camila who is constantly worried. Her worries follow her everywhere she goes and causes her to have negative self-talk and a fixed mindset.
When Camila hears her class is going on a field trip to the aquarium, she worries about everything that could go wrong instead of being excited. When she tries to hide on the field trip, she sees her friend Kai is already hiding. He is afraid to see the stingrays. He asks Camila if she will go with him and Camila changes her mindset.
Camila realizes her heart is bigger than her fears and instead of thinking that she can’t do something, she starts thinking that she will try new things.
BRAVE EVERY DAY 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 Brave Every Day reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing character
- summarizing / retelling
- author’s purpose
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- growth mindset
- worry
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- action verbs
- contractions
- prefixes
BRAVE EVERY DAY 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 Brave Every Day?
- Lexile® Measure: AD620L
- Guided Reading Level: N
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): N/A
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Trudy Ludwig. It was illustrated by Patrice Barton.
What genre is Brave Every Day?
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 40 pages long.
