Every store I enter just SCREAMS Halloween!! A reminder that the special day is soon approaching. Are you ready? Take a peek if you dare at these wonderful resources ideal for the literacy portion of your day. Using themes to teach keeps students engaged and making reading and writing progress!!
Six delightful Book Companions ideal for the literacy portion of the day! Each one has an adorable craft, vocabulary, word work, comprehension and writing. Buy the bundle for a 20% discount.
I am so excited about the ‘spook’tacular resource. It is filled with reading, writing, data collection, graphic organizers, and many word work activities.
The resource begins with four mini books ideal for guided reading. Your students can highlight key words, read over and over and color. The text is then used to complete activities and each one ends with a cover page for a class book and a page for student work.
In the Dark of the Night
Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details
Parts of Speech…Noun/Verb…use text
Class book cover
Student writing pages
I’m Not Afraid of Anything
Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details
Parts of Speech…Noun/Adjective…use text
Class book cover
Student writing pages
In the Haunted House
Graphic Organizer…Main idea…details
Number Words…counting
Class book cover
Student writing pages
What Will I Be for Halloween
Opinion Writing
Data Collection
Making Words…trick or treat
The end is followed with a person for students to decorate themselves in their costumes. The perfect bulletin board…Class on parade…
Word Work
Spooky Opposites
Singular/Plural
Rhyme
2 Word Searches
Suggested Literature
The suggested literature is followed by comprehension activities.
The Old Lady Who’s Not Afraid of Anything...spin and build a scarecrow
Picture cards for retelling the story and sequencing
In the Haunted House
Predicting
Scary, Scary Halloween
Story Elements
We’re off To Find the Witches House
Graphic Organizer
Text to Self Writing
You Choose…trick or treat
Scary, Scary Halloween
Writing
Topics…I’m Not Afraid, Halloween Favorites
Opinion/Narrative
Graphic Organizers
Developing Paragraphs
Developing opening sentence, details, closing
Final write pages
Illustration pages
The packet ends with colorful vocabulary cards for posting in the writing center or around your room.
Happy Halloween!
