Calling all elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Everyone Loves Cupcake! You’ll find this post very helpful. It includes resource recommendations and information for teachers. Specifically, it shares the book summary, reading levels, genre, and more. All of this will help you plan an engaging interactive read aloud lesson.
Kelly DiPucchio’s Everyone Loves Cupcake is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. You and your students are going to love it too! It lends itself to class discussions on friendship and integrity. These are great discussion topics for kids! This picture book is a must have in every classroom. Be sure to add it to your read aloud collection. You will pull it out year after year!
Check out the Everyone Loves Cupcake activities and lesson ideas below! You’ll quickly see why this book is so popular!
Engage Your Students with Everyone Loves Cupcake Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Everyone Loves Cupcake. 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 Everyone Loves Cupcake reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
EVERYONE LOVES CUPCAKE SUMMARY
Cupcake is perfect in every way. She is brilliant, impeccable, and even wears a tiara! She works hard to impress everyone around her.
Eventually, people start to think she is too perfect. They do not want to be friends with her. As a result, she seeks out Cookie for advice. Cookie recommends that she just be herself. Cupcake embraces this advice. She shouts that she hates birthday parties and that her frosting isn’t even her real color!
This simple action makes her more relatable to others. In response, her friends share their insecurities and secrets. This ultimately strengthens their friendships.
Your students will love this book!
EVERYONE LOVES CUPCAKE LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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We found this book was great at teaching the topics listed below. Check it out!
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based Everyone Loves Cupcake reading comprehension questions focus on:
- retell
- analyzing character
- author’s purpose
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- friendship
- integrity
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
This book is great for teaching:
- punctuation marks
- pronouns
- subject/predicate
EVERYONE LOVES CUPCAKE 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 Everyone Loves Cupcake?
- Lexile® Measure: AD520L
- Guided Reading Level: I
- DRA Level: 16
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.1
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Kelly DiPucchio. It was illustrated by Eric Wight.
What genre is Everyone Loves Cupcake?
It is a fantasy book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students. They will help you confidently teach your students about genre.
How many pages are in the book?
The story is 40 pages long.
