Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Chopsticks 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 Chopsticks picture book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 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 Chopsticks Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Chopsticks. 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 Chopsticks reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
CHOPSTICKS SUMMARY
Chopsticks have always been best friends and they do everything together. That’s how it has always been. In fact, their friends can’t even think of a time they weren’t together. When they were practicing new culinary tricks, there was an accident and Chopstick snapped. The doctor told him he would need to stay off his leg for a while.
At first, the two remained side by side as always. After some time though, he told his friend to venture off on his own and tell him all about the experience. At first, Chopstick was apprehensive. He had no idea what he could do on his own, however, with encouragement from his friend, Chopstick went out into the world. He learned that there were many things he could do alone, and tried out lots of new activities.
When Chopstick was healed, the two reunited and were stronger than ever. They learned many new things they enjoyed doing together, like painting, playing music, and drawing.
CHOPSTICKS 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 Chopsticks reading comprehension questions focus on:
- summarizing and retelling
- analyzing illustrations
- making connections
- plot (problem and solution)
- identifying theme, message or moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- friendship
- individuality
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- prefixes
- multiple meaning words
- adjectives
- punctuation
CHOPSTICKS 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 Chopsticks?
- Lexile® Measure: AD500L
- Guided Reading Level: N
- DRA Level: 24
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.7
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. It was illustrated by Scott Magoon.
What genre is Chopsticks?
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.
