Meaningfully build literacy skills while exploring friendship, empathy, and big feelings with Buffalo Fluffalo activities. Students can sequence the story, identify character traits, explore cause and effect, practice rhyming and vocabulary, and reflect on the story’s lesson. Hands-on puzzles, writing prompts, comprehension questions, and an interactive emotions game keep students reading, thinking, talking, and creating while considering what might be hiding behind someone’s tough exterior. Perfect for Back to School or anytime your class is talking about friendship and feelings, these activities help students strengthen literacy skills while learning how understanding and support can help everyone feel a little less alone.

As a result of the included activities, students will be able to:

• Trace lines and letters.
• Illustrate story characters.
• Sequence the story with pictures.
• Sort rhyming words.
• Alphabetize words from the story.
• List character traits.
• Determine a cause and effect from the story.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Write about the story’s lesson.
• Complete a buffalo puzzle.
• Solve a word search.
• Apply Writing Skills with included writing templates and prompts.
• Practice Reading Comprehension with included discussion questions for the beginning, middle, and end of the book.
• Engage in Social Skills with whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activities.
• Participate in an interactive game to follow directions and understand emotions.
• Use digital tools to practice rhyming words.

With these activities, students build literacy skills while discovering that even the toughest-looking friends can have some pretty big feelings inside.

🦬 Big fluff. Big feelings. Big learning! All of our learning activities build literacy while helping students explore friendship, empathy, and emotions.

🦬 After downloading the Buffalo Fluffalo activities, enjoy the story with your Novel Effect soundscape for a read-aloud packed with heart, humor, and plenty of fluff!

About the Book and Soundscape

Buffalo Fluffalo thinks he’s the biggest, toughest creature around, puffing himself up and stomping through the prairie. But when a rain shower leaves him soggy and small, he learns a valuable lesson in true friendship and self-acceptance. This charming prairie tale comes to life with playful rhymes, an electric guitar theme, and a heartfelt rendition of Home on the Range!

Round up a copy of the book and help students discover there might be more underneath a tough exterior than meets the eye.