The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Lesson plans and teaching resources

Ezra Jack Keats
The author's official site.

Creative Problem Solving with Ezra Jack Keats
This lesson uses 5 books by Keats: A Letter to Amy, The Trip, Pet Show, The Goggles, and Jennie's Hat. Students map the stories, compare and contrast them, and write stories of their own in which a character solves a problem. It is designed for grades K-2.

Ezra Jack Keats Everyday Edits
Given a paragraph about Ezra Jack Keats, students edit it for punctuation and other errors.

Classroom Instruction: The Snowy Day
Activities to build skills in sequencing, writing lists, and identifying seasons. Information for an author study. Includes printables. This 9-page document requires Adobe Reader for access.

Critical Thinking and Art with The Snowy Day
Students describe what makes illustrations worthy of a Caldecott Award. Then they complete an art project that uses the same techniques (collage) as the illustrations in the book.

The Snowy Day
Students try to predict the ending.

The Snowy Day
Summary, literacy strategies, discussion questions, and vocabulary words.

The Snowy Day
After listening to the first half of the book, students draw inferences and write an ending.

The Snowy Day Discussion Guide
Five discussion questions.

The Snowy Day Lesson Plan
Students make snowflakes from tortilla shells as part of a lesson on snow.

The Snowy Day Science Lesson
Students observe snow.