The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity

The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity

One of my favorite books to read aloud as winter continues through January is The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. It’s such a fun book that leads to great discussions and questions in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms. I created this pocket chart activity to go along with the book.

The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity

The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity for Winter

This activity incorporates children’s pictures and names; it’s similar to the gingerbread pocket chart activity I shared with you in November.

The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity

Incorporating children’s pictures and names into literacy activities is highly motivating and engaging.

This pocket chart activity supports the following early literacy skills:

  • Tracking print {concept of print}
  • Left to right directionality (concept of print}
  • Return sweep {concept of print}
  • Spaces {concept of print}
  • Name identification
  • Letter identification
  • Rhyme

This activity can also be used to teach other concepts such as sight words and punctuation for those students who are ready; chant it as a sing-song verse to promote oral language and fluency.

Supplies to Make the Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity

How to Assemble the Snowy Day Pocket Chart

First, write the poem on your sentence strip with the marker. Next, print the character shape on red construction paper or cardstock, one per child. If you’re using construction paper you will need to cut the pages to size for your printer. Then, cut out the character shapes and glue one picture of each child to the face area. Gather or create a name card for each child.

Directions for Using the Snowy Day Pocket Chart

Start by reading the book The Snowy Day aloud to your class. Next, introduce the pocket chart activity to the class in whole group. Invite the students to chant along as you place each child’s character and name card in the chart and point to the words with a fun pointer. When the students are familiar with the poem and how to use the chart you can place it at a center for independent practice.

The Snowy Day Literacy Activity for Preschool and Kindergarten
Another fun way to present this activity is to use photographs of the children bundled up in their winter clothes instead of the paper character.

Click on the image below to download the free character printable.
Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity Printable for Preschool and Kindergarten

You can read The Snowy Day for free on We Give Books.

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Photo credit: strelka via Shutterstock

5 thoughts on “The Snowy Day Pocket Chart Activity”

  1. Thank you so much for this GREAT idea. I’m actually using this story on Monday to go along with our discussion with all of the snow we have here in Chicago. I refer to your site very frequently.

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