Image of main characters, Tate and Jun
Shannon Wright
Mini Graphic Novel,

Pine School Pals: The Snowball Fight

Meet the Pine School second-grade class. This week, Tate and Jun have a fun snowball fight, but then there’s a problem . . .

By Meg Richardson
From the December 2023/January 2024 Issue
Lexile® measure: 460L
Featured Skill: Use Visuals, Main Idea,
Topic: Social-emotional learning,
Common Core Standards
  • RL.2.1 Key details RL.2.3 Describe how characters respond to events RI.2.9 Compare two texts RL.2.7 Use visuals RL.2.10 Read grade 2 stories SL.2 Talk about grade 2 texts L.2.4a Context clues for word meaning
TEKS Standards
  • Health
    (3) Mental health and wellness--social and emotional health. The student identifies and applies strategies to develop socio-emotional health, self-regulation, and healthy relationships. The student is expected to: (A) communicate needs, wants, and emotions in healthy ways; (E) describe the qualities of a good friend (F) describe and demonstrate respectful ways to communicate with family members, peers, teachers, and others; (G) identify the feelings and perspectives of others by interpreting their verbal and nonverbal cues

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Pine School Pals: The Snowball Fight

By Meg Richardson

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About the Story

Social-emotional Learning Focus

Friendship, Coorperation, Kindness

Step-by-Step Lesson Plan
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IMPLEMENTATION

Small group; whole group; independent reading

PAIRINGS AND TEXT CONNECTIONS

  • From the Storyworks 2 archive:

This comic is part of a series. Students can look at past print issues or go online to read about the Pine School Pals’ other adventures!

BEFORE-READING RESOURCES

  • Text Preview Bookmarks:

(10 minutes) Kids can cut out the fiction bookmark and use it to preview the text.

SUGGESTED READING FOCUS

Read as a play, problem/solution (30 minutes)

  • Read the first page with your students. You can assign students different roles and read this mini graphic novel aloud like a short play! The main characters are introduced on the first page.
  • As you read, ask students to think about what the problem is. Then, when you have finished reading, ask what solution the characters found.

AFTER READING SKILLS PRACTICE

(15 minutes for each activity)

  • Problem and Solution: This activity helps students reflect on the structure of the comic they have just read.
  • Comics Feature Hunt: This activity helps students identify features of comics.

Be sure to check out our “What's in a Comic?” video! This fun video helps kids understand features of comics, like speech bubbles, thought bubbles, and more.

Text-to-Speech