S.C.A.M.P.E.R for Back-to-School Read-Alouds

If you are not familiar with S.C.A.M.P.E.R. it's a way to increase the level of rigor and critical thinking in your classroom. 

It's an acronym that stands for:

S-Substitute

C-Combine

A-adapt

P-Put to another use

E-Eliminate

R-rearrange

I like to use it based on my themes. Terri over at: https://engagetheirminds.com/blog/  just posted some great resources on the subject.

These are some of the activities you can do with the book David Goes to School.

Here are ways to incorporate S.C.A.M.P.E.R. with this story:

1) Substitute another location for David-what would David at the mall look like? the zoo?

2) Adapt a classroom so that it would be an ideal learning space for David-maybe stain-proof carpet.

3) If you were the teacher, how would you have to modify your instruction because of David?

4) Another use for a paper airplane.

5) Rearrange the classroom so it would become David-proof.

So we substituted the mall for school--how would David act knowing what we know about him? These are from my Kinder class.

1) Substitute another accessory for Pete's "school shoes"-Rockin' in my school ________.

2) Adapt Pete's shoes for another occasion other than school.

3) Modify Pete's shoes for different settings-space shoes, desert shoes, wedding shoes, etc.

4) Another use for shoes-you could plant a plant in a shoe, etc. (I would give them shoe cutouts and a blank piece of paper and let them glue the shoe on where they wanted and decorate around it with their idea)

1) Substitute another creature for the raccoons in the story-what changes?

2) What if Chester was going somewhere else other than school, adapt the good-bye technique for antoher setting.

3) Modify that goodbye technique for maybe Dad or brother/sister-someone else in your family or another character from a book. If you read First Day Jitters-what do you think the teacher's technique for the first day would be? What would Pete the Cat's be (probably something very cool! :).

1) Substitute something else for her dot-how would the story have changed if she had made a different mark on her paper.

2) Combine her dot and the little boy's line at the end-what could they make together?

3) Adapt-adapt her dot for other people-what would Santa Claus' dot look like, a giant's, the principal's, etc.

4) Modify-the dot for different settings-a dot in the Arctic, underwater, etc.

5) What is another use for the dot? Again I'd give them a cutout and let them design around it-it could be the bottom of an exclamation point, etc.