Spring Is Here with Fiction and Non Fiction Literature

This delightful story by Will Hillenbrand will delight you and your class. The illustrations are wonderful and the story about Spring Is Here A Bear and Mole Story will open discussion about signs of Spring and opinions on the season. It is also a story of friendship as Mole works to solve the solution of how to wake Bear.

This resource contains:

18 Colorful Vocabulary Cards for Posting

Word Work Activities: Syllables, Parts of Speech, ABC Order, Definitions, Word Search, Making Words (hibernation).

Comprehension Activities: Text to Self, Sensory (see, hear, smell), Author Purpose, Story Elements, Sequencing, Main Idea, Story Recall.

Writing: 3 Differentiated Paragraph Organizers on Spring, Differentiated Final Write Pages, Class Cover for showcasing student writing, 2 Paragraph Organizers on How I Make Breakfast, How Mole Makes Breakfast.

Craft: Adorable Mole with overalls.

Mini Reader: Informational Text on Spring

Perfect for Guided Reading and the Literacy portion of your day. Students can see how information about Spring can be found in Fiction and Non Fiction stories.

Check out the complete resource Spring Activities with Jellybeans and More

This delightful Spring Packet is filled with activities to enhance your Literacy and Mathematic Centers as well as fill your room with delightful student crafts and page toppers. The activities should carry you through several weeks of fun filled activities.

It contains:

Colorful vocabulary for posting that include pictures.

5 Stories Fiction and Non Fiction, followed by Comprehension activities:

Last One In is a Rotten Egg Diane DeGroat: idioms, definition, proper nouns, changes in story

There Was an Old LadyWho Swallowed a Chick by Lucille Colander : cause and effect, sequencing, pictures for sequencing and story retell

The Jellybeans and the Big Dance by Laura Numeroff: Character identification, problem identification, author’s purpose,

Max Counts his Chickens by Rosemary Wells: character senses, story recall, prediction

It’s Spring by Linda Glaser: Opinion, Finding facts in literature

Reading Responses for: story opinion, story elements, character identification (these are designed to be used with any story)

Reading for Detail:

These activities include text and activities that have the student use the text to respond.

Rabbits, The Egg Hunt, Spring, Chicks