Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Bright Star 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 resiliency, empathy and growth mindset, this Bright Star picture book by Yuyi Morales 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 Bright Star Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Bright Star. 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 Bright Star reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
BRIGHT STAR SUMMARY
In a world where so much is uncertainty, we see a mother dear awaken her fawn for the first time. We see her encourage the fawn to be safe, take risks, and take in the beautiful landscape.
This beautiful, poetic story has both English and Spanish words and shows the beauty and uncertainty of the world. This book provides a light of reassurance and courage that readers can feel as they read.
BRIGHT STAR 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 Bright Star, 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 Bright Star reading comprehension questions focus on:
- retelling
- analyzing illustrations
- authors purpose
- identifying theme, message and moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- resiliency
- empathy
- growth mindset
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- punctuation marks
- verbs
- ellipses
BRIGHT STAR 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 Bright Star?
- Lexile® Measure: AD330L
- Guided Reading Level: J-K
- DRA Level: 16
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 1.9-2
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written and illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
What genre is Bright Star?
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.
