I've been looking for more story books to do with my young learner ESL classes, and then I remembered I already had designed some material around this book. (I used this book a few months previously as an introduction for a writing activity for my adult class.) So I decided to edit my old material slightly, and re-use it for this book.
As I mentioned the last time I used this book, I remember it from childhood because I myself once did a writing activity based off of this book--my 4th grade teacher read it to us, and then had us design our own story using the same format as the book.
I took the previous worksheets and PowerPoints I had used for my adult class, redesigned them slightly, and then was able to re-use this book for my young learner classes.
This book is available on amazon.com here.
Supplementary Materials:
The PDF I linked to in my last post on Fortunately is still on line here.
The video I originally used is also still on line here.
Here are some supplementary teaching materials I made when teaching this book in my classes. These materials don't really work too well independently of the actual book, so you'll need to get a copy of the book to use these.
PowerPoint: (drive, slides, pub)--no animation version: slides, pub
Worksheet: (drive, docs, pub)--and a production activity (docs, pub)
Link of the Day
Noam Chomsky on Poverty & Inequality in America
Update: November 5, 2025: Now that Gemini Storybook exists, I've found that this can be a fun way to present the students' stories. Google Gemini seems to have a limit of about 10 pages, so I think it's best to limit it to 10 sentences. But you can put 10 "fortunately..." or "unfortunately..." sentences into a Gemini Storybook, and it will generate all the illustrations.
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