Imagine a future where everyone has room to be themselves with The Future Book activities! Blending English Language Arts and social-emotional learning, these activities encourage students to read, write, create, and think about differences with curiosity. Students can compare the present with an imagined future, illustrate and write about their hopes, play a future-themed This or That game, build with shapes, and explore story vocabulary. Writing prompts, comprehension questions, and whole-group activities provide even more opportunities to discuss acceptance, inclusion, and diversity. These activities help students strengthen literacy skills while imagining all the wonderfully different people, ideas, and possibilities the future might hold.

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

• Build a fish with shapes.
• Create drawings and writing related to the story.
• Illustrate differences between now and the future.
• Illustrate and write about hopes for the future.
• Play This or That related to the future.
• 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 digital tools to learn vocabulary.

With these activities, students can build literacy and social-emotional skills while imagining a future where our differences are something to understand, appreciate, and celebrate.

🚀 The future looks different, and that’s the fun of it! These learning activities mix literacy, creativity, and SEL while encouraging students to imagine a future with room for everyone.

🚀 After downloading The Future Book activities, enjoy the story with your Novel Effect soundscape and travel into a future filled with strange sounds, unexpected ideas, and plenty of surprises!

About the Book and Soundscape

Take a trip to the future, where words are weird, colors are mind-blowing, and even dogs make music! This delightfully absurd soundscape is packed with larger-than-life voices and unexpected sounds, from sniffing noses and barking beats to bubbly, splashy fish tunes. The future sounds pretty strange, and seriously silly.

🚀 Make your future read-alouds easier with your own copy of the book. Give students a hilarious starting point for imagining how the world might change and what they hope will always have a place in it.