Sprout a love of reading with The Cool Bean activities. They are a bean-tastic way to support literacy and social-emotional skills. A perfect pairing with your Novel Effect read-aloud of The Cool Bean, these activities foster empathy, kindness, and self-confidence. Snap into this bean-credible experience and watch your readers blossom into cool, confident readers and kind friends!

The Cool Bean activities grow literacy in a fun and engaging way. From creating new story characters, to writing sentences with vocabulary words, readers will cultivate creativity and language skills. They’ll also sequence the story, sort rhyming words, put bean varieties in alphabetical order, and complete an acrostic poem to root reading and writing. 

Crown social-emotional learning with activities that foster empathy, kindness, and self-awareness. Readers will write about ways to show kindness, determine character traits, and interview a ‘cool bean classmate,’ cultivating their ability to connect with others. Grow compassion and confidence with whole group prompts and sharing about a special talent.

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

• Character Craft: Build a cool bean! 
• Illustrate new bean characters for the story.
• Write about ways to show kindness.
• Determine character traits for the main character. 
• Sequence the story.
• Sort rhyming words.
• Put bean varieties in alphabetical order.
• Write sentences with vocabulary words.
• Draw or define story vocabulary.
• Rank words based on shades of meaning.
• Complete an acrostic poem.
• Write about a special talent.
• Interview a ‘cool bean classmate’.
• 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 activities.

Use these activities with the whole bean team, at stations or centers, or as a student choice. They’re perfect for bean-lieving in differentiation and focusing on learning goals and skills.

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💙 After downloading The Cool Bean activities, read the book with the soundscape in your Novel Effect app for a bean-credible experience!

About the Book

Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done. With equal measures of humor, wit, and charm, this incredible picture book reminds us that it's cooler to be kind. 

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