Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for How to Catch a Garden Fairy 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 perseverance and kindness, this How to Catch a Garden Fairy picture book by Alice Walstead 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 How to Catch a Garden Fairy Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of How to Catch a Garden Fairy. 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.
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HOW TO CATCH A GARDEN FAIRY SUMMARY
The story How to Catch a Garden Fairy is about a fairy who is so happy to be back in her garden home! She notices a group of children and flies out of sight so she doesn’t disappear from human touch. The fairy watched the children as she goes about her daily tasks. The children are making traps to try to catch the fairy but none of them work! However, the fairy likes all the nice things the kids did for her and she is very fond of them when they leave. She wishes they will come back again and that this time they’ll stay.
HOW TO CATCH A GARDEN FAIRY 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 How to Catch a Garden Fairy reading comprehension questions focus on:
- rhyme | rhythm | repetition
- analyzing illustrations
- summarizing
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- perseverance
- kindness
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- contractions
- pronouns
- types of sentences
HOW TO CATCH A GARDEN FAIRY 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 How to Catch a Garden Fairy?
- Lexile® Measure: N/A
- Guided Reading Level: N/A
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): N/A
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Alice Walstead. It was illustrated by Andy Elkerton.
What genre is How to Catch a Garden Fairy?
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.
