This document provides ideas for lesson plans and activities about Flat Stanley to engage students in comprehension, reading, writing, discussion, art, and vocabulary. Some of the suggested activities include having students summarize what happened before and after in the story, discuss places Flat Stanley visited in his adventures, write their own versions of the story putting Flat Stanley in new situations, make a paper or play-doh model of Flat Stanley, design a stamp for his envelope, and learn vocabulary words related to being flat through metaphors, similes and adjective illustrations. The document also lists some iPad apps and websites related to Flat Stanley.
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1. Andrea Hillbrick 2013
Planning with a quality text:
Comprehension:
Pictures from the text – what happened
before this and what happened after?
5W summary
Perspective – wear glasses, how does it
feel to be Flat Stanley
Reading:
What would you have in your envelop if
you were flat?
Talking and listening:
Discuss destinations that Flat Stanley visits
during his adventures.
Writing:
Put Flat Stanley in different
situations/destinations and write about it.
Write a new rap.
Write an alternative ending.
Flat Stanley
Jeff Brown
iPad apps:
Master piece me – take photo in an art
piece and frame.
Making:
Make Flat Stanley with play-doh or paper
– Where can you go and can’t you go.
Converting dimensions and making Flat
Stanley
Other:
Stanley’s view
Art museums
Take a photo of being flat and then
frame.
Pathway around Australia – 3 places to
visit and find facts.
flatstanley.com
Design the stamp to go on the envelope.
Vocabulary:
Flat as a pancake
Flat as a tack
Metaphors and similes
Using the beginning letter of surname to
change their name to a food.
Put up an illustration on the IWB to write
down as many adjectives.
Focus words – spool, snickery