Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Diary of a Worm Lesson Plan Whole book

Today we are going to study this very cute book: 

It might take more than one lesson to finish this book,  but it is worth it! 


Rachael Alice Orbach

Professional On-line English teacher 

Contact Rachael to set up your English lessons! Ages 6-Adult




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Talk about it: 
Look at the pictures: 
What is Worm's report card, good or bad? 
What did Spider draw for him? 
How does baby Worm feel in his picture? 
How do all the other worms feel on their first day of school? 
Where did the family go on vacation? 

March 20

What are the three rules that Mom told him? 
Which ones apply to both humans and worms? 
 
New Words to Know: 
remember
tunnel 
earth 

Write sentences for these new words 
1
2
3



March 29 

What did Worm try to teach Spider? 
What happened to Spider? 
Write the three things:
1
2
3

New words to know
dig 
stuck
upside down
ankle 


Write sentences with these new words
1
2
3

What rhymes with dig

dig      dog    pig   pencil

What rhymes with stuck?

stuck     scissors     clay  tuck


Make a Sentence: 

stuck    His   got  his 

________________________


swallowed    a   He  bunch   dirt   of 

________________________________


March 30  

What can't worms do? 

How do we know that worm doesn't like this? 


April 4

What happened in his garden? 
Who wants to catch worms?  Why?
What is bait? 

Words to know
bait
dug
deeper

Put in the missing vowel(s)

b_ _ t     d _ g     d_ _  p _ r 

Which words rhyme? Circle them.

dug   dig  bug  big

bait   say   wait  deep 

Family Members 

Mother, Father, son, daughter, Grandpa, Grandma

Make a family tree: 






April 10

What happened in Worm's garden? 
Where did all the worms gather? 
What game is very dangerous for them? 



Make sentences: 

rained  all   It  night

_________________________

ground  soaked  The   was 

__________________________

is dangerous   very Hopscotch 

___________________________


Words to know
soaked 
rained 
dangerous
sidewalk  

Make up new sentences with these words: 

1_______________________________

2_______________________________

3_______________________________

4. ______________________________


April 15 

What did Worm forget to bring to school?
What did he do instead? 
How did the teacher feel about that? 
What did the teacher make Worm do? 
What did he do after that? 

Words to know: 
forgot
lunch
hungry



Past tense,it happened already  and Present tense happening now 

forgot                                            forget
dug                                                dig 
ate                                                 eat

Write a sentence using the word forgot:

_______________________________

Write a sentence using the word forget:

________________________________


Write a sentence using the word dug:

_______________________________

Write a sentence using the word dig:

_______________________________

Write a sentence using the word ate: 

________________________________

Write a sentence using the word eat:

________________________________

April 20

What did Worm do to the kids in the park? 
How does he feel about that? 


Words to know: 
snuck 
sneek
wriggle
wriggled
scream
scramed
Make sentences: 

snuck  I on up kids  some

________________________

didn't  me  hear  They  coming

_________________________



didn't  = did not 
can't  = can not or cannot

I can go to the party 
I can't go to the party 

Now you write sentence using did and didn't: 

____________________________

____________________________


Make these words into the past tense:

did         __________________
wriggle   __________________
scream   __________________

 
May 1

What did Grandpa tell his grandchildren? 
What did Worm do? 
How many good mornings did he say? 

Words to know 
teach  
taught
manners 
important 
stood
stand

Match present tense to past tense

teach                            dug

dig                               stood

stand                            wriggled

scream                         snuck                

wriggle                         taught

sneek                            screamed


Make sentences 

I  all stood   day 
______________________________

see you Nice  to 


______________________


May 8 

What dream did Worm have? 
What did Mom tell him? 


Words to know: 
garbage
giant 
birds
hopscotch 

Write sentences using these words: 
____________________________  garbage

______________________giant  

_____________________________ birds  

_______________________hopscotch  

Make a sentence 
play hopscotch birds Giant  

 
 ______________________________

garbage stop eating bed before

 
______________________________________ 


 May 15

What happened between Worm and Spider?  Why? 
What do you need legs to do? 
Can Worm run? Why or why not? 
Is Spider right or wrong? 

Words to know: 
fight
told
cool
ran
right 

Put in the correct vowels: 

t_ld    c_ _ l    r_n     

Which words rhyme? Draw a line between the rhyming words. 

fight     tool

  ran     told
 
cold       tan

cool        right 


Make a sentence 

Spider  I fight had 

________________________
 

May 16

What was so funny? 
What happened to Spider?
What noise did Worm hear? Why? 
How did Spider feel? 

Words to know: 
laugh hard
fell 
out of his tree
legs 
need


 Make sentences: 

laugh I  spider make

_______________________________

fell out tree He  his of

________________________________

needs  Who legs   

________________________________?


May 28 

We can sing the song!  

And if you want to watch a video: 

Words to know
head
in 
out
yourself 
turn 
about 

Put the vowels in the right place: 

_n       _ _ t      h _  _  d 

Make a sentence:

You   in   your  put  head 

_____________________


turn  about yourself You 
_________________________


June 5

What did the students make during Art class?
What did Worm do with his when he got home?

 Do you like to eat macaroni? 
 

 
Words to know
macaroni - a type of noodle 
art class - a class where you learn art. 
mine - something that you have. 
home - a place to live
ate - past tense of eat
dinner - food to eat in the evening. 

Put in the missing word from the Words to know list:


We made ___macaroni _______________________ necklaces in Art class. 

I brought mine home_______ and we ate it for _dinner________________. 


Put in the correct vowels 

_t_    _  r t      d _ n n _ r   c l _ s s   m _ n _ 
 
ate      art        dinner          class      mine

Possessive pronouns: this means something belongs to you. 

Mine     I   
his        he 
hers      she 
yours    your      
ours       our   we 
their      theirs

Choose the correct pronoun and write it in the blank: 

I ate ______ . 

You ate  _______.

He ate ________.

She ate ______.

We ate ________. 
 
They ate ________.

June 15

What does big sister like to do all the time? 
What did Worm tell her? 
Who thought it was funny? 
Who didn't? 

Words to know: 
pretty
mirror
looking 
face
rear end
funny 

Put the vowels in the right place: 

pr_tty     m_rr_r     l_ _ k _ ng    f_ce  f_nn_


Make a sentence: 

thinks  She  pretty  so is she 

_______________________ 


thought Spider  was that  funny really

___________________________________ 


not  Mom  did 

  _______________________________


Put in the correct word in the correct sentence:  Use these words if you can:  funny, pretty, mirror, face. 

She is _____________________________

Look in the __________________________

It is very ____________________________


JULY 4  

This is the National Independence Day in the USA but Worm is thinking about something else! 

What does Worm want to do when he grows up? 
Why is this a dangerous job? 


Words to know
dangerous
job 
step 
careful 

Put in the missing letters: 

d _ nger_us

c_r_f_l

ste_

_ob

Make sentences 
 

want I  Secret  agent  to  a  be  Services 

_____________________________________________


President step might me on The 

__________________________________________ 

dangerous  job it's   a

__________________________________________

 words with full at the end:  
The full makes the word mean "full of _____ " 
 
careful  -  full of care. 

wonderful - full of wonder

beautiful  - full of beauty 

Make up sentences using these words. 

1. 



2. 



3. 


July 28 

What are the three things that Worms doesn't like? 
Look carefully at the pictures, Which homework doesn't he like? 

Words to know: 
bubble gum 
long lasting
have 
homework
digging 
compost
soil 

Fill in the missing letters: 
h_v_

l_ng

s__ __ l 

Make sentences: 

I   gum  chew can't

__________________________________________

dog I have  can't a
__________________________________________

homework  that  All 

__________________________________________
 

Make up a sentence with 

homework__________________________________________

digging__________________________________________


bubble gum __________________________________________




July 29

What are the three things that he likes about being a Worm? 
1.
2.
3.

Where did he go to get his "teeth" checked? 
Why doesn't get in trouble about mud? 
Why doesn't he take baths? 

Words to know: 
dentist
cavities
teeth
mud
tracking
grubby 

Put in the missing letters: 
d_nt_st     c_v_t_ _ s    t_ _ th     m_d     tr_ck_ng   gr_bb_ 

Make sentences: 

good a things Three worm about being

_____________________________

never  to I dentist to  dentist go have  

_____________________________

track I through  house  mud the 

_____________________________

my little grubby Who's boy 

_____________________________


Make your own sentences with these words: 


teeth _____________________________

mud _____________________________

dentist _____________________________



August 1 

What is one of the problems about being a worm? 
Where do they live?
What do they do for the Earth? 
Look at the pictures, which one is your favorite?  Why? 

Words to know

bee 
stung
rock 
awesome
anniversary 
slumber party 
comic
pile

Put in the missing letters: 

b _ _   r_ ck  st_ng   c_ m _ c    p_l_ 


Make sentences 

me stung Bee

___________________________________

found a  I  rock 

___________________________________


awesome this Isn't this 

___________________________________


slumber sister's  party My 

___________________________________


dirt My pile  favorite 

___________________________________




Make up your own sentences using these words: 

awesome  ___________________________________


comic ___________________________________


pile ___________________________________



Congratulations on finishing this book!   You get the Worm Prize! 








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