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What if Everybody Did That? Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for What if Everybody Did That? 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 manners, making good choices and interrupting, this What if Everybody Did That? picture book by Ellen Javernick 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 What if Everybody Did That? Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of What if Everybody Did That?. You can find it in the section below.
  2. 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.
  3. Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with What if Everybody Did That? reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THAT? SUMMARY

The story What if Everybody Did That? Is about a boy who struggles to use his manners and make good choices. He does things like push his grocery cart as fast as it will go, throw his garbage out the window of the car, interrupt his teacher, and splash in the pool. Whenever he makes a poor decision, the adults around him ask “What if everybody did that?” The boy then has to reflect on what would happen if everyone was making the same decision that he was choosing to make. The boy uses his reflections to make better choices.

WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THAT? 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 What if Everybody Did That?, 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 What if Everybody Did That? reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • analyzing character
  • point of view
  • analyzing illustrations
  • identify the main idea
  • cause and effect

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:

  • manners
  • making good choices
  • interrupting

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • nouns
  • action verbs
  • verb tense
  • interjections

WHAT IF EVERYBODY DID THAT? 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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What if Everybody Did That? activities

BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for What if Everybody Did That?

  • Lexile® Measure: AD450L
  • Guided Reading Level: K
  • DRA Level: 20
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.5

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written by Ellen Javernick. It was illustrated by Colleen M. Madden.

What genre is What if Everybody Did That? 

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.

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