Description
The Name Jar Activities: Literature Companion for 1st-4th Grade
These activities for The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi are perfect for back to school because they helps establish a positive and inclusive classroom climate from the start. This easy-to-use literature companion is standards-aligned for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.
The Name Jar Activities no-prep, printable activities:
- Two pages of discussion questions (15 questions total) from The Name Jar
- Discussion questions on task cards (2 questions per page)
- First, Next, Then, and Last for The Name Jar
- Who, What, When, Where, Why, How
- Vocabulary Words (taken from text in The Name Jar)
- Sequencing (with an answer key)
- Compare and Contrast
- Fact or Opinion
- New Students Should Know….
- My Name
- My Nicknames
- Three Truths and a Fib
- Friendly Letter to My Teacher
- My Name graphic organizer
- Create a Word Find
- Name Acrostic
- Decorate Your Name
NOTE: THIS FILE INCLUDES A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!
This product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.
This PDF file includes 38 pages + Google Slides™.
Teaching Pad –
Can’t wait to use this!
Tiffany W –
Thanks for putting this together.
maria peixoto –
Thank you for all your hard work.
Heather N –
This is great.
Laura R –
I’m going to be using this coming up for beginning of the year activity. Always read this book-good to have activities to accompany it.
Stephanie B –
Great resource! Lots of activities to accompany the book and some great discussion questions. Thank you!
Sunita S –
I love this book! Your materials help me differentiate for my ELL students:) TY!
Janine L –
This was a great reading guide for my 3rd grade students!
Ashley A –
Excellent Resources!
YVONNE C –
awesome resource thanks!!!
Anel F –
These were great activities for the book!
Candace R –
great unit
Renee Coleman –
I truly love the activities.
Amy S H –
Thank you! This is great!
Anneta S –
Wonderful ! My kids love it! Thanks for sharing !
Laura Cone –
Love these books.
Angela A –
Looking forward to using this soon!
Sherry S –
I am enjoying using this teaching unit.
Ellen G –
Wonderful!
Kellye’s Kreative Classroom –
Perfect unit! Thanks!
mary cecchetti –
Love this!! Thank you!
Complete Teaching Solutions –
Easy to use
Kristen Price –
Compliments the book perfectly. Thanks!
judy vizzini –
i love this unit!
Molly Straeter –
Wonderful resource!
Heatha N –
Love it
Lisa O –
This will go along great with my first week activity with the book, thanks!
Maureen O –
Can’t wait to use this! I love this book for Back to School. Thank you:)
Stephanie M –
Great resource! Thank you
Beverly K –
There is a good variety of activities to go along with the book. A great resource to own!
Allison B –
Wonderful resource for a wonderful book!
Peggy R –
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Rachel S –
Kids enjoyed this. Thank you
Emily McKeon –
Great for the first day of school!
Cindy Winkler –
My students loved this!
Ms Rosemary –
thank you! I am reading this book with a newcomer student from Korea.
Simple Yet Special –
Great resources to accompany a great read aloud!
Kathryn A –
Great
Melissa Tharau –
Terrific resource to accompany a great read aloud!
Karen J –
Great lessons for the library
Stephanie J –
Look forward to using this resource for my first week of second grade.
Carol F –
Great activities
Reba L –
Great resource for The Name Jar read aloud! Thank you!
Hana L –
This has been a great resource. I used many, but not all of the pages with my class. Good discussions, helpful worksheets, and fun activities. Thanks!
Tiffany D –
This is such a great story for the beginning of the year, or any time. Thank you for making it easy to teach with these activities!
Tara K –
Great activities to check comprehension skills.
Ilene B –
Great Activities. We had fun using them.
Nancy B –
Nice resource. Great discussion questions
Nancy B –
Nice resource. Great discussion questions
kathy C –
Excellent
Catherine B –
I use this for a substitute teacher. The students liked the story and it provided enough lessons for the sub to use for all reading activities for the day.
Kelly B –
Thank you
winniepo W –
Nice
Pebble B –
good activities
Brittany P –
Awesome job!
Amy P –
Love all of the activities, perfect for the beginning of the year!
cheryl R –
thanks
Sarah Selig –
Lots of activities to do. Very well done.
Sarah Selig –
Lots of activities to do. Very well done.
Iryna B –
Great Resource
Lauren B –
My students enjoyed learning about the importance of their names!
Tracy S –
Thank you!
Tamara G –
I appreciate all the options and am excited to open the year with this activity!
Sarah V –
This resource is full of so many great skills I am working on in the classroom. I love the connection to this story about being proud of your name!
Martha S –
Very fun activities!
Adorable Creations –
students loved it
Janalene K –
Just perfect!
Amy W –
Great product! Good practice!
Heather B –
This book is so cute. Thank you for creating these activities.
Crystal H –
Love it!
Megan F –
It was great to use with the book
Abigail Hammond –
Great resource! I used this for back to school to talk about respecting each other’s names and cultures.
Jacquelyn M –
Lots to accompany the book! Great job!
Teaching Basics –
Great resource.
Diane E –
Thank you! Love this book!
Janet T –
My students have LOVED this!
The Little Maestra –
So nice! Fun activity for the class. Thank you!!
Sandi Dickerson –
Great addition to the book.
Susan H –
We used this at the beginning of the year.
Christine F –
My class loved the story and the activities.
Kelli G –
Awesome
Shannon T –
Great resource! Thanks 🙂
Ashley R –
Perfect for what I needed!
Caticorns and Diet Coke –
The Name Jar is a fantastic book and this resource makes it very easy to use.
Kelly L –
Great beginning of the year resource.
Courtney Burkhart –
Loved it.
Gina E –
This is a great resource. Thank you!
Mrs Rios Loves Reading –
This was great.
Susan P –
So helpful to use after reading the book. The kids loved it and so did I!
AllThingsFourthGrade –
I love this resource and so do my students!
Teaching and Cardigans –
loved this! Thanks
Monica M –
This resource was very valuable to me during distance learning because students could interact with the material. I could make a copy of whatever worksheet I wanted to use, either work on it together in a small group during Zoom, or post it to google classroom for a flipped learning assignment. Thank you!
Fun In 5th With Ms D –
Great resource.
Paola Gomez –
I was able to adapt this and do it over a Zoom call
Rachel W –
Great resource to go with the book! Lots of different options for what you can do with it.
Teresa McCullough –
Great resource for my lower level students.
Sarah Cline –
This is a great ready to go resource for distance learning.
Jeanette R –
Very engaging and goes well for beginning of school!
Rachel F –
I used the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHY HOW slide with my students. It fit our weekly standard perfectly. It was easy for the students to edit and complete.
Elizabeth F –
This was a great activity for the first week of school. Thank you!
Rana M –
Amazing resource! The digital worksheets are great and easy for students. Thank you for this resource!
Tyisha C –
My students enjoyed these activities, thank you!
Emilie L –
This resource is well designed and includes a lot of engaging activities. Perfect for the beginning of the year!
Edwin M –
Thank you for this resource!
Cheryl P –
The students enjoyed this book and the resource was very helpful in providing activity ideas to integrate into the lesson.
Eva Varga –
Good ideas for using the mentor text The Name Jar.
Ashley D –
Great activities to go along with The Name Jar!
Rebecca Gonzalez-Kreisberg –
This worked well in facilitating discussion about and appreciation for students’ names.
Elizabeth’s Edventures –
I love that we were able to dive deeper into the story with this resource. Thank you!
Ryan T –
Loved the variety of activities! I was able to pick and choose for my kids.
Benjamin Z –
It made our story more engaging and enjoyable. Thanks!
Patricia O –
Great resource. THanks.
Erin W –
I was able to adapt this for use during distance learning. Great resource!
Marisa C –
This was a great resource. A wonderful book for SEL and for learning a new culture.
Samantha Gottwald –
Thank you this was a great activity to introduce names and the meaning of the names.
Megan Williams –
A great resource for the start of the year!
Misti C –
My students especially loved the art project to go with The Name Jar. The students wanted to proudly display them in the hallway.
Shannon Allen –
This resource is amazing. Worth the buy.
Rising Sun Speech with C Greene –
Thank you for this resource! I absolutely love it!
Joan Y –
Great activities to go along with this read aloud!
regina robinson –
this is a very useful sight
whitney T –
My students loved using this resource. We had a guest reader Zoom into our room for Read Across America and this was the book that she read! The activities went great with the book! My class loved researching their names and asking their parents how they got their name. Thank you for the ideas and the extra name activities! We loved them!!!
Orla Whelan –
Really great mix of activities for exploring the book The Name Jar. The children were engaged and enjoyed their learning.
Ruth C –
I used the discussion questions and sequencing task to supplement a unit of work. The questions engaged the students in great discussion about the text.
Lacey W –
Great activities for the Name Jar! My students enjoyed them
danielle arbolino –
Awesome resource! I never read this book until I found this resource! My students loved it too.
Kim H –
Great product! Thank you!
Ofra A –
Great digital resource!
Diva S –
Perfect resource for back to school at the beginning of the year and classroom building activity. Thank you!
Zarkeya L –
Great read aloud resource!
Cori W –
Fun beginning of the year activities – best part was it tied into my mentor sentence lessons for the week!
Kyla D –
This is an awesome resource! It includes a ton of activities to go along with “The Name Jar.” Definitely recommend!
Hollie L –
Great resource to get students interactive with a book!
ashleigh V –
Great resource, thank you.
Samantha D –
Such a great story to begin with, but the discussion questions here are perfect to guide discussion
Molly S –
Great resource
iTeach in a Small Town –
Great resource!!
Deborah D –
My students enjoyed this book and activity. Great way to talk about differences.
Michelle S –
My students enjoyed these activities. I used a mix of paper and digital.
Ropers Pocket –
Thank you for the great resource!
Ling C –
Love this pack. What a useful informations for Asian month study unit.
debbie B –
Excellent resource!
Tracey S –
Great variety of activities to go with the book
Christy W –
What fun this was! My kiddos were engaged and excited. Such a fun way to practice skills we are learning- far better than a workbook! So many good ideas here.
Rebecca M –
Amazing resource
Danielle Pearson –
This is a fantastic beginning of the year activity! It’s a great way to talk about and celebrate students and their unique cultural differences. Can’t wait to use it again this year!
Ariane O –
So heartfelt!
Gracie Reeves –
Love this thank you!!
Sharon S –
I love using this at the beginning of the year. Thank you!
Shule at School –
I love these activities and this book. These are great for BTS.
Heather Seegert –
Perfect for the start of the year!
Raquel P –
Great resource! My students enjoyed this activity.
Emerald G –
I always love reading this book at the start of the year and my kids love the activities.
Amanda Thurmond –
There are a lot of resources with this! Thank you so much for all your hard work.
Michele G –
I use this book at the beginning of the year and was happy to be able to find this for students to use digitally in remote learning.
Lisa B –
My students enjoyed this story and were really engaged about discussing names! The worksheets helped reinforce some ideas discussed during the read aloud. Thank you!
Stephanie M –
Thanks!
Sarah M –
Great resource to support a wonderful book.
Ashley Calhoun –
We used this during the first week of school and we enjoyed it so much!
Stephanie Joyce –
This is a jammed, packed set of resources to enhance the reading and comprehension related work on The Name Jar. It is a text and set of resources that invites wonderful learning and insights about individual students early in the school year. Thanks!
Nancy C –
Name Jar was perfect for my first week of school. I can see it working when new kids coming in during the year as well.
sheena washington –
My kids love the worksheets
Tayler S –
Love this!
Margaret G –
Very helpful resource!
Meghan S –
This resource is amazing! The book has such an amazing message and the activities to accompany it are so great! Highly recommend!
Rachel Yonts –
Thank you !!
Coover’s Classroom –
This was a great resource to add to this awesome book!
Mme Ooty –
This resource provided good discussion questions for the book and is an excellent introduction for summary writing. I also love that it’s digital & printable as I am teaching hybrid, so it saved me a lot of prep time. Thanks so much!
Amy B –
My students loved these activities. The Name Jar is such a wonderful book and the activities you’ve created to go with the text are wonderful. The name tags turned out especially great!
Leslie W –
Thank you for creating such an meaningful activity for my students to use! It complimented the book perfectly and encouraged my students to think in creative ways.
Ellen V –
These activities were the perfect resource to use with “The Name Jar.” Thank you!
S dmitrievna –
Perfect resource for the story
Shevonne Ward –
Loved using this at the beginning of the year!
Katrina Baker –
Great resource and kids had fun.
Brooke D –
Loved it!
Heidi L –
Great book with a wonderful message! Thank you for creating a resource with so many wonderful activities.
Heather F –
My students enjoyed the thinking activities in this resource. It was a rich discussion!
Renee C –
Thanks!!!
Amanda C –
The students and I both enjoyed the activities.
Terese H –
A great activity to go along with a wonderful book
Jennifer K –
Fun resource for a great read-aloud. Thanks!
The Bailey Bunch 4th –
LOVED THIS RESOURCE
lori C –
great activity
Lindsey H –
Great resource! Thank you!
Katy F –
I love reading “The Name Jar” at the beginning of the year and this went perfectly!
Klaudia R –
Wonderful resource to use. I love to use it in the beginning of the year.
K’s Creation –
My students really enjoyed using this!
SouthCarolina4 –
Great for getting to know students!
Faith P –
Great!
Emily H –
So fun!
Ashli G –
Great book and activities!
21st Century K –
Great back-to-school activities! I love this book!
selina S –
Great resource!
Jessica A –
Great product. I loved how much is included with the vocabulary and discussion questions.
Molly Connell –
I love the many different resources that this offers. My students loved the acrostic poem.
Michayla B –
My students loved these engaging Beginning Of The Year activities! So easy to just print and go!
Jennifer T –
Great Product!
Jessica S –
My students loved this story! They could really relate to Unhei. Thank you for sharing!
Shiela Kim –
I love that it is a book focused on Korean culture. It’s something I can share about myself with my students.
Kyrsta S –
Thank you!
Secrets of STEAM –
Wonderful activities to go with a beautiful book.
tara P –
Great resource, thanks!
Christina G –
My students enjoyed and stayed very engaged in this resource.
Stephanie T –
My students enjoyed using the resource. Would recommend to others.