Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Perfectly Norman 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 feelings and self-esteem, this Perfectly Norman picture book by Tom Percival 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 Perfectly Norman Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Perfectly Norman. 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 Perfectly Norman reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
PERFECTLY NORMAN SUMMARY
The story Perfectly Norman is about a young boy named Norman. Norman had always felt perfectly normal, until one day when he grows his wings. Norman loves his wings and he loves flying! However, when it is time to go dinner, he decides that he needs to hide his wings from everyone so that they think he is still normal.
Hiding his wings makes Norman feel miserable. He misses out on all of his favorite activities, and is hot and uncomfortable. Finally, he decides to take off his coat and reveal his wings. This inspires other children to take off their coats and reveal that they have wings too! Norman is never happier than when he is flying around with the other children. He learns the lesson that being normal isn’t important, he just needs to be perfectly Norman.
PERFECTLY NORMAN 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 Perfectly Norman reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making inferences
- making predictions
- analyzing character
- analyzing illustrations
- making connections
- author’s purpose
- identifying theme, message and moral
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- feelings
- self-esteem
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- prefixes
- suffixes
- synonyms
PERFECTLY NORMAN 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 Perfectly Norman?
- Lexile® Measure: AD610L
- Guided Reading Level: O
- DRA Level: 30-34
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.3-3.5
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Tom Percival. It was illustrated by Tom Percival.
What genre is Perfectly Norman ?
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.
