FALL into
Engaging Teaching Resources
Reading children's literature in the classroom and at home is powerful. Children show a keen interest in the books you read and they become engaged and motivated readers themselves. Reading to children is proven to improve cognitive development. Cognitive development is the emergence of the ability to think and understand. The simple and complex problems presented in children's literature creates a construction of thought processes. These processes include remembering, decision-making and problem solving. Children who have a rich and full background of stories and books have many opportunities to practice the skills of information processing, intelligence, reasoning, language development, memory and attention span. When you read aloud to children, you provide them with a background of knowledge which helps them make sense of the world. Children see, hear, and read which leads to thinking and more reading. Talking about books gives this reading process power. Power to bridge stories to their own lives and make connections to people, places and situations. Read good books. Talk about good books. Write about good books. and you will find that one good book leads to another.
Some books for you to read this fall....
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Halloween Fun!
Boo!tiful! Resources
My Teacher On Halloween is more fun for the teacher! than her students!
Read on to find more teacher-created resources that will engage your students in reading, writing and learning.
Authentic writing prompts and celebrating a holiday that is child-centered and fun for everyone.
Read Spookley, The Square Pumpkin and create your very own Spookley. He is a square pumpkin and teaches a life lesson!
Children's literature in the classroom always brings about high interest in your students.
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. Get this book companion here.
Grab this teaching resource for Halloween reading and writing activities: writing prompts, Halloween poetry, label the picture and word study. Create an interactive reading booklet that will have your children reading for fluency in minutes. Download these halloween vocabulary cards for your pocket chart. It's easy... print and go! for the teacher.
Read. Think. Draw. Write. Listen. Learn.
Smile! It's all here!
Learning color names and writing about reading! For beginning readers and writers. Read this wonderful book, Frankencrayon , by Michael Hall and then write about the book. Even make a scribble monster! It's motivating! It's educational and it's fun! Literacy lesson #1 read good books; read, think, write, listen, share!
This teaching resource is to use with Michael Hall's wonderful book, Frankencrayon. There are 10 reader response pages included:
- Who is your favorite character?
- Color Frankencrayon
- Make a 'Scribble Monster'
- Read crayon colors - match
- Read crayon colors - color and match
- Color in the color words
- Handwriting practice for color words
- Eight color word flash cards for display
Understand the life cycle of a pumpkin.
Easy foldable booklet that students see each stage of growth. Stages include:
1. seeds
2. sprout
3. growing sprout
4. vines and flowers
5. green pumpkin
6. big, fat pumpkin in the pumpkin patch
Also included are 3 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 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 and after completing it guides them through retelling the stages.
Writing Prompts and craftivity for
Creepy Carrots, by Aaron Reynolds.
34 Pages to respond in writing to this fun book at Halloween time! This book entertains the reader and the listeners with Jasper's adventures at Crackenhopper Field. Read about creepy carrots and learn how Jasper solves his problem. It's fun fiction! And leads to an ending that makes the reader think! Read this book aloud and choose these reader response pages to write about the book. Also included is a Creepy Carrot craftivity. Make these creepy carrots and create a colorful bulletin board.
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All About Pumpkins
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All About Pumpkins
Read. Write. Think. 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 study 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
- word sorts
- 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?
Read on to find more teacher-created resources that will engage your students in reading, writing and learning. 
