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17 Different Classroom Activities

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1.Predicting Porter

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Students will think creatively and become
better readers by understanding the story and
imagining how future events will unfold.

2. Porter Inventory

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Practice tracking and counting by taking info
from the text and relating it to the real world.

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3. Chinchilla Chill Zone

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Increase reading comprehension by processing
and retelling the story.

4. Persuasive Porter

To understand and practice persuasive writing.
For early learners: re-enforce the concept that good
persuasive writing provides an opinion followed by at
least three reasons that support it.

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5. How to Sequence Writing

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Practice informative writing.

6. Become Author and Illustrator

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Connecting the process of creative writing to images
that tell stories.

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7. Change Ending

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Self-connection; make connections between
the text and their own creative ideas.

8. Just Like Porter, We're All Hoarders

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Students can connect with characters,
explore cleaning up their room, and explore their
inner grossness!

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9. Directed Drawing

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Practice creative writing while increasing
the student’s emotional-social vocabulary.

10. Directed Writing and Free-Form Writing

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Practice creative writing through directed and
un-directed storytelling.

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11. All the Feels

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Connect Porter’s emotions with their own to
explore feelings and increase emotional-social
vocabulary. Discuss what causes each emotion to
explore empathy.

12. Write the Room

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Practice writing skills while getting to move
around the classroom.

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13. Super Fun Stuff

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Make learning physically active and fun!

14. Porter Mat

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Explore emotionsand expand social-emotional vocabulary. 

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15. Porter Puzzle

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Porter Puzzles with different levels of difficulty.

16. Porter Game

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HAVE A BLAST WHILE PLAYING PORTER’S BOARD GAME(S)!

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17. Rotting Banana, Anyone?

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Learn about the process of biodegrading and food safety.

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