Island of the Blue Dolphins Interactive Quilt Flip Book

Every year I read Scott O’Dell’s book, Island of the Blue Dolphins. The kids love the idea of being stranded on an island and having to survive on your own. I love using this book to talk about theme and character traits with my class.

This year, I created a new resource to help reinforce important story elements as we read this fabulous book.

These Island of the Blue Dolphins book activities are perfect for your classroom. Evaluatte story elements such as setting,character traits, problem/solution while you read this novel. These will look like works of art hung on a bulletin board!

Basically, it is a culminating activity to wrap up all that the students have learned after reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. I created it so that it could be used as a group activity which would allow me to differentiate for my high, middle and low kiddos. There are 9 activities that can be laced together in a 3×3 quilt. I would assign a group of 3, 3 squares each a let them show what they know. I could give the less complex quilt squares to my lower students and the more thought provoking ones to the higher students. BUT, that’s not all!!! If I didn’t want to have this as a group project, it is easily adaptable as an individual project! Now instead of a 3X3 quilt, each student can create their own flip book out of all of the squares!

Both options serve as a great review and a make stellar bulletin boards!

Let’s take a closer look, shall we?

The Quilt/Flip Book Pieces included in this set are:

The cover or center square followed by 2 Setting Squares/pages- picture of the island and a place for the to write about the island. Also included is a Setting Think Sheet to help them think about all of the important things to include in their description and picture.

A Letter to Ulape Extension activity. This is a great mid-book activity to help the kids summarize what has happened so far and make predictions about what is going to happen next.

A Story Part Wheel: Beginning, Middle and End

Also included are:

– Problem and Solution T-Chart
– The Most Exciting Part Puzzle Piece page (climax)- 2 Character traits pages- one for Karana and another for for Ramo. Great for comparing Characters

Thanks for taking a look at my newest product! Grab this set here at my Teachers Pay Teachers Store!