Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Mindful Mr. Sloth 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 mindfulness and patience, this Mindful Mr. Sloth picture book by Katy Hudson 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 Mindful Mr. Sloth Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Mindful Mr. Sloth. 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 Mindful Mr. Sloth reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
MINDFUL MR. SLOTH SUMMARY
The story Mindful Mr. Sloth is about a girl named Sasha who is not patient at all. She likes to a lot of things all at once and she likes to do them as quickly as possible. Then one day Sasha discovers Mr. Sloth on the roof of her treehouse. Mr. Sloth likes to do everything slowly. Mr. Sloth and Sasha have adventures together and when it is time for the neighborhood race, Mr. Sloth teaches Sasha an important lesson about slowing down. At the end of the story, Sasha learns about mindfulness and changes her speeds to sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
MINDFUL MR. SLOTH 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 Mindful Mr. Sloth reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing character
- author’s purpose
- identifying theme | message | moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- mindfulness
- patience
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- action verbs
- pronouns
- quotation marks
MINDFUL MR. SLOTH 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 Mindful Mr. Sloth?
- Lexile® Measure: AD530L
- Guided Reading Level: L
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): N/A
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written and illustrated by Katy Hudson.
What genre is Mindful Mr. Sloth?
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.
