Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Knight Owl 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 problem solving and courage, this Knight Owl picture book by Christopher Denise 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 Knight Owl Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Knight Owl. 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 Knight Owl reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
KNIGHT OWL SUMMARY
The story Knight Owl is an entertaining book about Owl who wants to be a knight. When knights keep disappearing Owl goes to Knight School so that he can become a knight. Owl was a great student but some of the tasks were challenging for him. He worked hard and graduated Knight School with honors.
When Owl is a real knight he gets night watch and patrolls the wall of the castle. One night he hears loud flapping and comes face to face with a dragon that wants to eat him and has been eating the knights. Owl uses his bravery and cleverness to convince the dragon that he should eat pizza instead. It turns out that the dragon loves pizza and the knights are now safe from being eaten. A knight never disappears again.
KNIGHT OWL 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 Knight Owl reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing character
- summarizing/retelling
- author’s purpose
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- problem solving
- courage
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- action verbs
- adjectives
- homophones
KNIGHT OWL 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 Knight Owl?
- Lexile® Measure: N/A
- Guided Reading Level: E
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.6
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Christopher Denise. It was illustrated by Christopher Denise.
What genre is Knight Owl?
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 48 pages long.
