Welcome back to school with a splash of creativity and a sprinkle of STEM! Step into Jack’s imaginative world of If I Built a School and prepare for innovation and fun. The included activities are designed to seamlessly blend literacy and STEM skills to make learning an adventure from the start.

From designing and illustrating their dream school to defining vocabulary and sorting rhyming words, students will practice literacy skills. As they plan school amenities, use digital tools for design, and complete fine motor skill activities such as coloring and cutting, critical thinking and STEM concepts come to life. It is the perfect toolkit for kicking off the school year with creativity and learning through whole group discussions and collaborative projects.

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

• Design and plan a dream school.
• Illustrate features from the story.
• Complete sentence starters related to the story. 
• Write sentences with story vocabulary.
• Define story vocabulary.
• Sort rhyming words from the story.
• Determine the main idea and 3 details.
• Respond to writing prompts.
• Create a brochure for a dream school.
• 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 included whole group prompts and activities.
• Develop Fine Motor Skills with included coloring, tracing, cutting, and gluing activity.
• Engage in critical thinking to develop school amenities.
• Use digital tools to design their dream school. 

Get ready to build, create, and imagine like never before with If I Built a School. These activities promise a back-to-school season filled with fun, learning, and endless possibilities!

💙 Ready to build even more fun into your learning? Check out these creative book activities to amplify the adventure!

💙 After downloading the If I Built a School activities, build your read-aloud with the soundscape in your Novel Effect app for an extra layer of interactive fun!

About the Book and Soundscape

If Jack built a school, there would be hover desks and pop-up textbooks, skydiving wind tunnels, trampolines for basketball, a robo-chef to serve lunch, field trips to Mars, and a whole lot more. This time, the inventive boy who described the perfect car and house in the previous books dreams even bigger. Read along to the soundscape featuring synths, robots, whirs, and sci-fi inspired music with Jack as you take an imaginative journey. 

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