Share Connections

Use the following questions to facilitate group discussion, or have students write responses to the questions individually. Does any part of the book remind you of the world and what is occurring now, or what has happened in the past? How have your own experiences...

Options for Written Response

Choose one or two of the following categories to have students write a written response about the story. Respond personally to the text How do you feel about the text and why? How has the text changed your life in some way?   Respond to theme and/or author’s...

Retell with Rocks

Have students retell the story using pictures they’ve painted on stones to create a path from start to finish.

Play Question Ball

Write different questions for students to answer about the book with a marker on a beach ball. Make sure the questions hit on different elements such as character, problem and solution, setting, connections, and predictions. Then, throw the beach ball around the...

What I Learned

Refer back to the KWL Chart that was started before reading the text. Remind students of their thoughts and what they wanted to know about wildfires. Fill in the last column of the chart together. If there are questions that were not answered in the text, encourage...