Topic: Literacy

  • 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.

  • The Signs of Spring Activity Pack

    The Signs of Spring Activity Pack

    Welcome Spring with this creative and fun activity pack! There are informational articles and activities all about everything Spring! These articles and activities are great hands-on activities for centers too!

    This activity pack has kid-friendly informational articles with comprehension questions, real-life photos, and scenes for students to color and connect to the topic. Students will learn all about Spring with articles about:
    ✔ Spring Equinox
    ✔ Buds and Blooms
    ✔ All About Robins
    ✔ Daffodils
    ✔ Tulips
    ✔ April Showers Brings May Flowers
    ✔ Cycle of Life
    ✔ Spring Fever
    ✔ Spring Cleaning

    This unit includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students including:
    ✔ Mystery Board
    ✔ Organizer/Poster Activity
    ✔ Scavenger Hunt
    ✔ Venn Diagram to compare Tulips to Daffodils
    ✔ Cycle of Life Diagrams for a chicken and a lamb
    ✔ Cut out pop-up Flowers
    ✔ Writing Prompts (2)
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    PLUS…
    ✔ 6 Page Flip-up Book
    ✔ For Elementary Grades

    There are 3 main Spring-tastic Activities:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included relating to each section. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about Spring. Have students complete the comprehension and connection questions, mystery flaps, organizer, and other activities. Go for a walk and complete the Spring Scavenger Hunt. Students could work with a partner, in small groups, or even as a center/station activity to read and complete the activities.

    Hands-on Activities:
    Have students complete the Flip-Up Booklet. Students can build the flip-up book page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the flip-up. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

  • Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers: A Non-Fiction and Literacy Unit

    Grasshoppers are the great musicians of the insect world. In honor of grasshoppers everywhere, this fun and an educational product have been created just for your class full of budding scientists.

    This product includes everything and more to learn all about these incredible insects. There are three Informational articles:
    1. Incredible Insects
    2. Amazing Arthropods
    3. Hidden Musicians (all about grasshoppers)

    Then students create and complete a flip up book which includes diet, habitat, body parts, life cycle, three facts, and cute clip art. All the information needed to complete this beautifully artistic flip up book is included in the articles.

    Plus there’s, even more, insect and grasshopper activities for students to work on in science centers or individually including:
    ✔ One page “Amazing Insects” Poster Page
    ✔ Grasshopper Organizer
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flap book
    ✔ Vocabulary Activities:

    Vocabulary words include:
    ✔ Arthropods
    ✔ Invertebrates
    ✔ Exoskeleton
    ✔ Metamorphosis
    ✔ Nymphs
    ✔ Molt

    ✔ Life Cycle Diagram for a Grasshopper
    ✔ From a Grasshopper’s Perspective Writing Activity
    ✔ Directions, templates, organizers, and photos of student samples of a completed book are enclosed.
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – Second grade, Third grade, Fourth grade
    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge

  • 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