Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Memoirs of an Elf 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 advocation and problem solving, this Memoirs of an Elf picture book by Devin Scillian 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 Memoirs of an Elf Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Memoirs of an Elf. 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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MEMOIRS OF AN ELF SUMMARY
Memoirs of an Elf is told from the point of view of one of Santa’s elves. It is Christmas Eve and Santa and the elves are getting ready to go deliver presents. It’s the elves jobs to keep Santa on schedule. Santa tends to get a little distracted by all the cookies, dogs and toys. Despite running behind schedule in the beginning, Santa and the elves deliver all the toys in time and head back to the North Pole to celebrate.
As the elves unload the sleigh, they discover that something was left in Santa’s bag. It was Tugboat, someone’s dog! The group must figure out how to get Tugboat back to his family without being seen during the day. Eventually, Santa and the elves return Tugboat to his family and save Christmas!
MEMOIRS OF AN ELF 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 Memoirs of an Elf reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making predictions
- analyzing character
- point of view
- analyzing illustrations
- plot (problem and solution)
- asking and answering questions
- cause and effect
- figurative language
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- advocation
- problem solving
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- contractions
- homophones
- adverbs
- prepositions
MEMOIRS OF AN ELF 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 Memoirs of an Elf?
- Lexile® Measure: AD600L
- Guided Reading Level: M
- DRA Level: 24
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.5
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Devin Scillian. It was illustrated by Tim Bowers .
What genre is Memoirs of an Elf?
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.