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Halloween Safety Tips
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Halloween Safety Tips

These printable cards are an easy way to teach children safety tips for Halloween. Go over the tips at school or at home, and hand out the cards one by one.


Frankencrayon, book companion
Frankencrayon- Book Companion


Learning color names and writing about reading! For beginning readers and writers. Read this excellent 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!


my teacher on Halloween
My Teacher On Halloween

5 Writing Prompts about what "My Teacher Will Be On Halloween".   This is a fun 

and high-interest writing assignment.

Children love to think about what the teacher might be on Halloween... and teachers love to see what they write! Write and Draw! My Teacher On Halloween!




Halloween math resources



Double-Digit Addition & Subtraction

Double-digit Addition and Subtraction Practice Pages with a Halloween Theme. These worksheets provide practice in adding and subtracting double-digit numbers without regrouping. They can be fun and colorful, and they can be used to practice the skill of adding and subtracting double-digit numbers with a Halloween theme. Also, practice adding 3 single digits to a column. Set them at a math station for needed practice on a math skill learned and mastered. Assign for independent math practice for double-digit addition and subtraction.  

There are 12 total worksheets and 12 answer sheets included.



Creepy Carrots book companion
Creepy Carrots

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.

Focus Skills are:

  • interactive reading booklet
  • story elements
  • illustration
  • drawing creepy carrots
  • How many carrots are enough?
  • describing the main character
  • character traits
  • fill-in-blank activity
  • 4-square to write about story elements
  • illustrating story events
  • create your own creepy carrot with templates and directions
  • 34 pages to respond to the book
  • reading conference questions
  • teacher directions


Halloween writing, elementary grades

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

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

life cycle of a pumpkin
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, teaching resource

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


Room on the Broom book companion


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.


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Teach Halloween Safety 

These printable cards will be an easy way to teach children safety tips for Halloween. Go over the tips at school or at home. Handout these printable cards one by one.

Tips include:

  • check your costume. Make sure nothing is hanging down where you might catch your foot and cause you to trip
  • invite your parents to go with you
  • visit homes of your friends and neighbors and people you know
  • wear reflectives, glow in the dark or carry a flashlight
  • cross at corners where there are lights and crosswalks
  • use sidewalks
  • look left, look right, then look left again before crossing
  • watch for cars turning and backing up
  • put your phone away and pay attention
  • check all candy | do not eat any candy that is unwrapped or looks suspicious
  • safe, happy & fun!

Information for Halloween safety | Keep our children SAFE

Included are 16 Halloween Fun bookmarks 

to keep your students reading!

click read more to see how you can get this FREE resource 

and see some of the bookmarks

Charlotte's Web - Novel Study 


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Charlotte's Web -Novel Study

This complete and engaging novel study and literacy unit for Charlotte’s Web will save YOU time and engage your students in a meaningful reading experience. This novel study includes reading responses, graphic organizers, comprehension questions, vocabulary, writing about reading, character study, story elements, task cards for discussion groups or journaling and "book talk" questions for understanding the story, an interactive flip book and more! Everything you need! At your fingertips! You can easily assign these pages for distance learning and school-at-home assignments.


These writing prompts and graphic organizers

• will enable young readers to make connections to their reading

• will support reading strategies taught

• will improve reading comprehension

• will engage students in literature in a meaningful way






110 pages of Reading Response Graphic Organizers and Writing Prompts Include:

  • character study pages [12 pages]
  • adjectives to describe the characters
  • "Who am I?" character riddles
  • setting [2 pages]
  • 5 vocabulary bookmarks
  • vocabulary words for classroom display [42 key words from story]
  • writing about the theme [3 pages]
  • compare and contrast
  • ‘thick and thin’ questions [5 pages]
  • comprehension questions chapter-by-chapter [22 pages]
  • comprehension question task cards for discussion groups or journaling
  • story elements flip booklet [fun to make]
  • poetry! About a Spider, of course!
  • writing prompt for spider webs
  • visualizing activity
  • visualizing anchor chart for display
  • theme study pages
  • summarize the story page
  • recommendation page
  • ‘make a cover’ for your Charlotte’s Web folder
  • "book talk" questions for teacher with pacing guide
  • teacher resource pages

The flip booklet is easy to assemble. Download, print on 2 sides, fold and staple and you are ready to go!


This book is a wonderful book teaching the theme of friendship and loyalty.

E.B. White is a masterful writer and he captures the children's minds and hearts on page 1. You will be able to use this novel study if you decide to do a read aloud with the book; or if you assign the book for independent reading or

Robot Math Thursday | Math Practice | Math Skills




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Robot Math Thursday - School at Home - Distance Learning - Math pages for 2nd graders to complete at home. There are 40 pages for Robot Math Thursday... enough for a month of Thursdays. [or any day] with a fun Robot theme.
Easy to send home for school at home, homeschoolers or distance learning assignments. Independent work packet.  A variety of 2nd grade math skills are included.  

Focus skills are: 

  • addition and subtraction facts | double digits | horizontal format
  • symmetry | finish the robot
  • measuring to the half-inch
  • measuring with paper clips
  • collecting data to create a graph
  • creating a graph with data
  • reading a graph
  • answering questions using the robot graph
  • draw your own robots
  • write about your robots
  • Robot Math Thursday - certificates

You can find this teaching resources for Robot Math Thursday with one easy click.


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                                      Robot Math Thursday

Circle Time Talk | Task Cards | Back to School

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Circle Time Talk - Task Cards

Improve students' speaking and listening skills with these task cards that start meaningful conversations for your students. There are 50 task cards that show a question to discuss, tell and listen, and then discuss some more.


These task cards work well in a morning circle setup or anytime that you want to teach speaking and listening skills in your classroom. Each card shows one question.







Some example questions are:

  • What traits do you look for in a best friend?
  • How do you show kindness at recess time?
  • Tell about a time when you helped someone. How did you feel?
  • Name 2 things that you really don't need, but you feel lucky to have them.
  • Name something that you do everyday that helps the world.
  • If you had a robot for one day, what would you program it to do?
  • What might happen if animals could drive cars and trucks?
  • Do you think classroom rules help you to learn? Please give examples to explain your answer.
  • If a cat could talk, what would he say?
  • If you had $1,000, how much would you spend? How much would you save? How much would you share? Elaborate on each.

There are 50 total questions. Some examples are stated above. Easy to prepare your task cards... just download and print. Also included ... a half-sheet response page if your students need to prepare and write notes for their answers and two classroom posters.  One on speaking and another on listening. Post these near your circle time space.


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Literature In the Classroom | Books for the First Week of School


Read a book a day to your students to connect, build community, and develop a love of reading starting on the first day of school.


Start out your school year with some excellent choices of Children's Literature.  These masterful writers teach literacy and life lessons.  Learning to read is enjoyable when literature is an integral part of the process.  Enjoyable activities are often repeated.  When children have authentic opportunities with reading, writing and engaging with literature, they learn to love books and reading.  Do not overlook this essential component of literacy instruction.   It is a best practice in literacy learning to incorporate high-quality children's books into primary classrooms to instill the love of reading.  Engage your students with picture books, fiction and informational text. 

Children’s literature is powerful.

Children learn about themselves when exposed to the many books and book characters. They read and listen.  Reading aloud exposes children to story language.  They learn about people, places and experiences that they have never before experienced. They can learn empathy and social skills to use in their own lives.  

We can think about a children’s book as serving as either a window or a mirror. “Window” books allow children to peek into other people’s worlds (Bishop, 1990). “Mirror” books, on the other hand, present familiar characters or worlds to children, and they allow readers to identify with characters’ experiences (Bishop, 1990).

Did You Know?

You can listen to Children's Literature on my youtube channel.  Listen to the many great books and see the pages turn.  Some favorites are:

Only One You   Chrysanthemum The Perfect Square  Wake Up Wake Up
Pete the Cat   The Scarecrow's Hat   Frog on a Log    I love Animals   I am Peace
  The Wonderful Book    The Magic Fish       and many more! 

Reading aloud can significantly help with children's overall reading abilities and achievements.  Some of the benefits of reading to children include:  cognitive development, improved language skills, preparation for academic success, making bonds and connections with the child, improve concentration and stamina, improves imagination and creativity, and cultivates lifelong love of reading. 

Creating and organizing your class library can be time well spent. Your students will access the many books easily when your library is organized.  Be sure to include both "window" and "mirror" books in you class selections.    Invite students into the world of reading with a simple bulletin board like the one pictured below.  Read The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller.  She is a teacher who inspires her students to read a lot and love reading long after they leave her class.  Reading Miller's book will help you know the many reasons why literature in the classroom will benefit your students tremendously.  Read books to ask questions, to get answers and to ask more questions.  Write about the books you read and keep a reading log.  Find the perfect reading log for your class, and try a reading challenge.   Reading challenges encourage students to read in a fun way.  They are able to read different books in different places and at different times.