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Chester’s Way Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Chester’s Way 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 friendship and individuality, this Chester’s Way picture book by Kevin Henkes 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 Chester’s Way Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of Chester’s Way. 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 Chester’s Way reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

CHESTER'S WAY SUMMARY

Chester and Wilson have their own way of doing things, and they did everything together. They did everything the same way each time. This all changed when Lilly, who has her own way of doing things, moved into the neighborhood.

Lilly tried to get Chester and Wilson to play with her and to do things her way, but they would not talk to her or engage in her playful activities.

One day, some boys came up to Chester and Wilson and were not being nice to them. Lilly, disguised as a cat, helped them get free of the boys. The three friends mice realize they have lots in common and become great friends.

CHESTER’S WAY 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 Chester’s Way, 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 Chester’s Way reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • making predictions
  • comparing and contrasting
  • analyzing character
  • making connections
  • plot | problem and solution
  • asking and answering questions
  • author’s purpose

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

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

  • friendship, peer relations, and multiple friends
  • individuality

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • pronouns
  • possessive nouns
  • plural nouns

CHESTER’S WAY 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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Chester's Way

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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for Chester’s Way?

  • Lexile® Measure: 570L
  • Guided Reading Level: N
  • DRA Level: 28
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3 – 3.2

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.

What genre is Chester’s Way?

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.

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