Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Saturday 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 conflict resolution, emotions and self regulation, this Saturday picture book by Oge Mora 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 Saturday Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Saturday. 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 Saturday reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
SATURDAY SUMMARY
Ava could hardly wait. After her mother worked all week, it was finally Saturday! She looked forward to spending this time with her mom. They usually would go to the library for storytime, get their hair done, and picnic in the park. This Saturday was especially special because they were going to a puppet show!
Hopes started high that morning, but slowly, everything started to go wrong. Storytime was cancelled at the library, a splash from a car ruined their hairdos, and the park was too loud for a picnic. They rushed to the bus before they missed it for the puppet show. When they got to the front of the line, Ava’s mother realized she forgot the tickets in the kitchen! Ava’s mom broke down, but Ava reminded her that the most important thing about Saturday was that they were together.
After, they went home and put on a puppet show of their own! After all, being together is really all that matters.
SATURDAY LESSON PLAN IDEAS
Each of our 400+ Starts With a Story book companions come with a teacher’s guide to make lesson planning quick and easy, printable worksheets and digital resources that cover ALL of the standards-based reading comprehension skills.
When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for Saturday, 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 Saturday reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing illustrations
- authors purpose
- cause and effect
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- conflict resolution
- emotions
- self regulation
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- onomonaoia
- ellipses
- quotation marks
SATURDAY 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 Saturday?
- Lexile® Measure: N/A
- Guided Reading Level: L
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.4
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written and illustrated by Oge Mora.
What genre is Saturday?
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 40 pages long.
