Tacky the Penguin is one of my students’ favorite characters! This unit contains plenty of printables and activities to help you have a book study with Helen Lester’s books!

This unit has specific activities for all the following books:
Tacky the Penguin
Tacky in Trouble
Tacky and the Emperor
Tacky Goes to Camp
Tacky and the Winter Games
Three Cheers for Tacky

For each of the above books there are vocabulary and comprehension questions as well as opinion writing prompts.

There are also more generic pages to be used with any Tacky book covering the following topics.
Making predictions
Retelling
Problem/Solution
Comparing books
Text-to-self connections
And more!

Enjoy!