Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Who Wet My Pants? 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 taking ownership and compassion, this Who Wet My Pants? picture book by Bob Shea 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 Who Wet My Pants? Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Who Wet My Pants?. 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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WHO WET MY PANTS SUMMARY
Who Wet My Pants? is about a bear named Reuben. Reuben arrives at his campsite with donuts for all of his friends, when he realizes his pants are wet. Reuben immediately starts asking his friends who wet his pants. The other animals deny wetting Reuben’s pants, and try to make him feel okay about wetting his pants. They say that it can happen to anyone and that they used to wet their pants too. Even so, Reuben still won’t admit he wet his pants. He says that all he did that day was help out at a lemonade stand, walk by a waterfall, and take a nap with his hand in a fish tank. At the end of the story, Reuben declares that his pants must be wet because his pants are broken and have sprung a leak.
Students will laugh out loud when they hear this story about a bear who can’t admit he wet his pants.
WHO WET MY PANTS 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 Who Wet My Pants? reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing illustrations
- sequencing
- plot – problem | solution
- author’s purpose
- analyzing character
- cause and effect
- making connections
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- taking ownership
- compassion
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- proper nouns
- types of sentences
- ellipses
WHO WET MY PANTS 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 Who Wet My Pants?
- Lexile® Measure: 425
- Guided Reading Level: K
- DRA Level: 20
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.3
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Bob Shea. It was illustrated by Zachariah O’Hora.
What genre is Who Wet My Pants?
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.
