Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for The Bad Mood and The Stick 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 choices and emotions, this The Bad Mood and The Stick picture book by Lemony Snicket 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 The Bad Mood and The Stick Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of The Bad Mood and The Stick. 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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THE BAD MOOD AND THE STICK SUMMARY
The story The Bad Mood and the Stick starts with a girl named Carly who is not in a good mood because she saw an ice-cream store but wasn’t allowed to stop and get ice-cream. Carly sees a stick on the ground and uses it to poke her brother. That makes Carly feel better but the bad mood travels to Carly’s mother.
The bad mood and the stick take turns traveling to different characters. The characters are affected by the bad mood and make interesting choices because of it. Readers learn an important lesson that everyone has bad moods, and how to cope with it.
THE BAD MOOD AND THE STICK 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 The Bad Mood and The Stick reading comprehension questions focus on:
- making predictions
- making connections
- sequencing
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- choices
- emotions
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- common and proper nouns
- contractions
- quotation marks
THE BAD MOOD AND THE STICK 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 The Bad Mood and The Stick?
- Lexile® Measure: AD560L
- Guided Reading Level: N/A
- DRA Level: N/A
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.4
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Lemony Snicket. It was illustrated by Matthew Forsythe.
What genre is The Bad Mood and The Stick?
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 48 pages long.
