Book Study: The Polar Express

A cute picture book study for "The Polar Express". Lots of fantastic extension activities to help your students enjoy the Christmas and holiday season! This study has a variety of resources and can be used for preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade.

What You Get

• Teacher discussion guide
• Book project and activity ideas
• Youtube links to related videos
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Story crown template
• Story patterns cut and glue worksheet
• Tracing worksheet
• Big story maze
• Compare stories Venn Diagram worksheet
• "What Do You Think"writing/drawing opportunity
• 2 book reports
• 3 Draw and Write early writer prompts
• 1 writing pennant from story
• The Polar Express coloring page
• Santa paper bag puppet
• Recipe for Hot Chocolate- Color Teacher Version and send home versions for students.
• Tickets to the Polar Express in Color and Black and White
• Cut out gifts and put them in Santa's bag cut out craft template
• "Find the Lost Bell" maze
• Color and cut out the Polar Express Train (with 2 cars)
• Hot chocolate coloring page
• Santa Dot-to-Dot
• 3 letter "B is for Bell" handwriting practice pages
• Write the Story Sequence template
• Fill In The Missing Story Word
• Design Your Own Cover template
• Label the Parts of the book (cut and glue)
• Story word and picture sorting activity (cut and glue)
• Finish the Words From The Story (cut and glue the missing letters)
• Sight word worksheet (WE and OUR)
• Digraph worksheet (PR) (express)
• Sounding out words cards
• Sight Word cards
• Story Elements
• Character Traits worksheet
• Cut-apart sequencing strips
• Draw and Write "What Would You Ask For?" template
• Template for students to write and illustrate their own version of the story