Topic: Fall

  • The Runaway Pumpkin Literacy and Activity Pack for Halloween Activities

    The Runaway Pumpkin Literacy and Activity Pack for Halloween Activities

    The Runaway Pumpkin is one of my favorite Halloween books to read to the class. During Halloween week, I read a new Halloween themed book each day. For that week during centers, we do fun literacy activities related to each book. What a fun way to celebrate and learn about Halloween!

    The Runaway Pumpkin is a delightful book that describes the journey of a runaway giant pumpkin as it bumps and thumps its way through the Baxter farm, only to end up as a family feast that night.

    This unit includes several literacy activities related to the story that highlight:

    ✔ Character Traits (Granny and Little Lil)

    ✔ The Setting

    ✔ The Plot

    ✔ The Plot Thickens (sequencing activity)

    ✔ Problem, Solution, and Theme

    ✔ Find all the Action Verbs

    ✔ Pumpkin Adjectives

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Runaway Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt

    ✔ Pumpkin Poem compare and contrast

    ✔ Write your own Personal Narrative Runaway Pumpkin Story

    ✔ Writing Rubric

    ✔ Life Cycle of a Pumpkin Activity

    ✔ Quiz and Answer Key

    These activities work well for reading groups, centers, or as extended activities after reading the book.

  • All About Bats Nonfiction Reading Passages Bat Life Cycle & Bat Facts Worksheets

    All About Bats Nonfiction Reading Passages Bat Life Cycle & Bat Facts Worksheets

    All About Bats is a complete nonfiction bat unit for 3rd and 4th grade. This no prep printable packet is built around 4 nonfiction reading passages about bats with real life photos, a bat life cycle activity, myth vs. fact activity, vocabulary posters and activities, and a fiction story with comprehension questions.

    What’s Included:
    • 4 nonfiction reading passages

    • Myth vs. Fact Activity

    • Comprehension Questions
    • Bat life cycle activities
    • Research organizer for what bats eat, live, and how mammals are alike
    • Compare and contrast activities
    • Meet three bats: Buddy Boo the little brown bat, Berry Boo the fruit bat, and Bitty Boo the western pipistrelle
    • An Uninvited Guest, a fiction story about a bat that gets into the house
    • Cause and effect activity

    • Unit Test

    • 4 Writing Prompts: Narrative, Informative and Opinion Writing
    • Vocabulary posters and activities
    • A Flip Book
    • Complete Answer Keys

    Why You’ll Love It:

    • Zero prep. Print it and teach it today.
    • Nonfiction and fiction in one unit

    • Integrate science and reading at the same time
    • Black and white printing friendly

    • Myth vs. Fact Activity about Rabies
    • Works for whole group, small group, science centers, early finishers and sub plans