Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for My Lucky Day 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 expectations, this My Lucky Day picture book by Keiko Kasza 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 My Lucky Day Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of My Lucky Day. 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 My Lucky Day reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
MY LUCKY DAY SUMMARY
The fox thinks that it is his lucky day when a piglet shows up on his doorstep. He doesn’t even have to go out hunting! His food has come and found him. He pulls the piglet inside and prepares to eat him.
Now this piglet is a very smart piglet. He gets the fox to bathe him, feed him, and massage him. It makes the fox feels so sleepy that he falls asleep and the piglet escapes with his cookies. When the piglet gets back home, he relaxes by the fire, eats his cookies, and figures out who he will visit the next day.
Students will love this story about a tricky piglet and an eager fox.
MY LUCKY DAY LESSON PLAN IDEAS
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When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for My Lucky Day, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.
We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.
READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
The text-based My Lucky Day reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making inferences
- making predictions
- summarize/retell,
- analyzing character,
- making connections,
- plot (problem-solution)
- sequencing
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- problem-solving
- expectations
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- action verbs
- verb tense
- interjections
- punctuation
MY LUCKY DAY 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 My Lucky Day?
- Lexile® Measure: AD490L
- Guided Reading Level: M-N
- DRA Level: 20-24
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.6-2.7
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Keiko Kasza. It was illustrated by Keiko Kasza.
What genre is My Lucky Day?
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.
