Dear Polar Bear

This book is about a Polar bear who needs to decorate his new home. He sends letters to his bear friends around the world asking them for help sending items for his home. There are pull out letters to read and lots of different kinds of bears in the story.

Lesson Ideas:

Writing: As practice for letter writing- Have students think about something they need for their room. Have them write a letter to someone in their family asking for that item. Make sure to go over parts of a letter and how to start and end a letter. For a letter form to use click here

Language Arts: Compare/Contrast- You will need nonfiction books about the other types of bears in the story. Using a Venn diagram, compare polar bears to another type of bear in the story. Write at least 3 facts in each section of the Venn diagram.


Language Arts Standards:
3.Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
4. Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language (e.g., conventions, style, vocabulary)
to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences and for different purposes.
5. Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint