Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Wilfred 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 courage, emotions, and friendship, this Wilfred picture book by Ryan Higgins 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 Wilfred Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:
- Read a summary of Wilfred. 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 Wilfred reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.
WILFRED SUMMARY
This story tells the tale of a humongous, hairy beast on a quest to find a friend. One day, he comes across a town filled with bald people. Everyone ran away scared, that is, except for a boy. They played games and a friendship grew.
The townspeople said he was too big and hairy to be there, so he gave all of his hair to the people. Once winter came, however, Wilfred was not able to leave his cave because he was too cold without his hair!
One day, the boy went to find Wilfred. He froze in a blizzard, only to be saved by the beast himself! The townspeople finally accepted Wilfred and welcomed him as a hero!
WILFRED 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 Wilfred reading comprehension questions focus on:
- analyzing charcater
- cause and effect
- making inferences
LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS
We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:
- courage
- emotions
- friendship
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY
- pronouns
- transition words
- conjunctions
WILFRED 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 Wilfred?
- Lexile® Measure: AD610L
- Guided Reading Level: O
- DRA Level: 30
- Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 3.3
Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?
The book was written by Ryan Higgins. It was illustrated by Ryan Higgins.
What genre is Wilfred ?
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.
