15 Ways to Respond to Spookley, the Square Pumpkin

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Spookley Reader Response Pages

A Favorite Book for October Reading  

It's all here! Everything you need for your readers to respond to this book, Spookley, the Square Pumpkin, by Joe Troiano. In this story, Spookley is feeling a bit sad, lonely and square; and those other pumpkins are teasing him! But not for long, as you will read to find out what makes being square a unique feature and also helps to solve a big problem. This book entertains the reader and the listeners with rhyme and rhythm. The perfect book to teach and review the different shapes... and also teach awareness of differences; and how we might not want to judge a pumpkin by it's shape. 

It's fun fiction! And leads to a very rewarding ending. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages as a springboard for important class discussions about being unique and caring about others. Also included is a Spookley craftivity and word cards for your pocket chart.
Reader Response Pages Include:
  • character feelings
  • being unique
  • self-to-text connection
  • story elements
  • learning shapes
  • illustration
  • draw a pumpkin patch with all the shapes
  • beginning, middle, end
  • If I were a pumpkin, I would be...
  • I went to a pumpkin patch and ...
  • create your own Spookley, with templates and directions
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  • 13 pages to respond to the book...
  • craftivity to make Spookley; create a bulletin board
  • word cards for your pocket chart


Create Your Own Spookley with easy directions and templates:

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Being square can be really fun!  Get your templates and easy directions HERE!



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