Engage your students this Halloween by reading, thinking, writing, and drawing
around the theme of Halloween. Interactive Reading Booklet
17 Halloween Writing prompts! Word Study and Poetry! Seven Label the Pictures-
Cut and Paste Seven labeling pages where early writers will label the pictures. These pages are cut and pasted, and children read the words, reread them, and then cut them out and paste them in the correct box
to show the word's meaning.
- seventeen Halloween Writing Prompts
- writing prompts with word boxes
- writing prompts with sentence starters
- writing prompts with title
- writing prompts with 'give reasons why.'
- 4 Halloween Poems - read for fluency, read at school, read at home
- Read and Follow the Directions page
Interactive Reading Booklet - "The Halloween Parade"
Easy to download and assemble - 2 booklets on a page - print 2 sides
Teacher directions included - this is so easy !!
Students write in the booklet to complete the sentences and also color the pictures. This booklet has easy, repetitive text for beginning readers, and students love reading it—more than once!
This resource also includes the vocabulary needed for your booklets. Words your students need for interactive booklets can be displayed in your classroom or literacy center. Also included are some blank vocabulary cards if you need to write in some additional words for your Halloween word bank.
Grab this Halloween resource for Writing Prompts
and more HERE
Spookley, the Square Pumpkin,
by Joe Troiano.
Spookley feels sad, lonely, and square in this story, and those other pumpkins are teasing him! But only for a short time, as you will read, to find out what makes being square a unique feature and helps solve a big problem. This book entertains the reader and listeners with rhyme and rhythm. It is the perfect book to teach and review the different shapes and teach awareness of differences and how we might want to avoid judging a pumpkin by its shape.
It's fun fiction! And leads to a gratifying ending. Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages as a springboard for essential class discussions about being unique and caring about others. Also included is a Spookley craftivity and word cards for your pocket chart. Grab this book companion for Spookley, HERE
Understand the life cycle of a pumpkin. Easily
foldable booklet so that students see each stage of growth.
Stages include:
1. seeds
2. sprout
3. growing sprout
4. vines and flowers
5. green pumpkin
6. giant, fat pumpkin in the pumpkin patch
Also included are three pages for reference on the 'life cycle of a pumpkin': one black-and-white for students to color, one in color if you wish to display it, and the third one is a graphic organizer that the students can fill in to show that they remember the stages of a pumpkin's life cycle.
The booklet is a fun foldable that students love. After completing it, it guides them through retelling the stages. Grab this teaching resource Life Cycle of A Pumpkin
All About Pumpkins ... Read. Write. Do. Learn. These pages about pumpkins will engage primary readers in literacy skills, thinking, and learning about pumpkins.
Improve literacy skills and reading achievement with reading passages and writing prompts within a unit of studying pumpkins.
Add these pages to a science corner or literacy station with books and literature about pumpkins. These reading passages and writing prompts can be used for independent practice, small-group instruction, and whole-class unit studies about pumpkins.
All About Pumpkins
There are 50 pages:
- reading passages
- comprehension checks
- writing prompts
- drawing and illustrating
- facts about pumpkins
- KWL chart
- Poetry Booklet about Pumpkins
- word study
- label the jack-o’-lantern
- writing sentences
- learning new words
- vocabulary for display
- ABC order
- rhyming words
- math – skip counting- puzzles
- count by 10’s
- count by 5’s
- count by 2’s
- combinations of 10
- tally marks
- Life Cycle of A Pumpkin [anchor chart, cut and paste]
- collecting data about the class pumpkin
- Float or Sink?
Halloween Handouts! Writing Halloween Sentences and Solving Riddles with Multiplication. These handouts are easily assigned for distance learning.
These pages teach and provide some Halloween fun:
- students learn about the 4 kinds of sentences
- students show what they have learned by writing 'Halloween' sentences
- students solve multiplication facts to solve a riddle about Halloween
In this story, the witch and her cat happily fly through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat. Some animals help her and want to ride on the broom. A minor disaster comes, and all the animals come to the rescue. The story is in rhyme, bouncing merrily along, full of fun.
Read this book aloud to your child and choose these reader response pages to enhance the reading experience.
This book companion is to be used with
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson.
Focus Skills:
- comprehension questions
- characters in the story
- story events
- word study
- vocabulary cards for your pocket chart
- write and draw
- word work - phonics - rhyming words
- sight words
- diversified instruction
There are 30 pages in this teaching resource to respond to this book. You certainly would not have to do all of them, but you could if you wish. This book companion quickly diversifies instruction. Yes, I want Room on the Broom book companion.
