Teaching Comprehension with Scarecrow Stories

Building strong readers includes developing comprehension skills.

October's comprehension packet's stories relate to four terrific scarecrow stories.

Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant

The Scarecrow's Hat by Ken Brown

Lonely Scarecrow by Tim Preston

Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown

Lesson plans are provided as well as comprehension standards for posting as you teach.

This can be presented in small groups or done with an entire class.

Set up a scarecrow with a stack of hay in a corner to create a cozy reading corner.

Scarecrow vocabulary

Comprehension standards

Literature Suggestions

Standards for posting

Lesson Plans with literature 

Activities for comprehension practice

BONUS

Poetry

Fact or Opinion

Definition

Making Words

Let's Talk Scarecrow

BONUS!

Mini Book...All About Scarecrows

Craft

Word Search

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Let's Write October

This packet is designed to build confident and successful writers.

It contains 4 themed lessons with a literature connection.

Fire Safety...No Dragons for Tea

Christopher Columbus...The Life of Christopher Columbus

Pumpkins...My Bumpy Little Pumpkin

Football...T is for Touchdown

Students work through grammar skills relating to effective writing.

Differentiated pre writes support students in preparing their thoughts.

Spaces include room for pictures or writing to meet the many leveled writers in your class.

Next students prepare their "first write" "sloppy copy" or whatever you wish to call their first attempt at putting their thoughts together.

Editing, a piece often overlooked in classrooms, is also included.  Done weekly this will become an easier process for your primary student and will help them grow into effective writers.

Finally there is a journal for them to showcase their final writes for the week.

You can send them home or collect them throughout the year.

There is also a class cover so you can put a weekly class book out in your classroom for students to read others writing.

Monthly calendar and standards.

Cover pages for workbook and showcase journal.

Lesson plans for each of the four themes.

Grammar lessons and practice pages for each lesson to strengthen writing skills.

Graphic organizers.

Practice writing and editing.

Final writes and class book cover.

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Writing Fall Themed "How To" Stories

Writing "how to" stories has never been so much fun!!

Best of all there are so many graphic organizers to choose from.

Your class will find success in writing these stories.

Shown here is "How to Rake Leaves" 

But other topics are:

How to Pick the Perfect Pumpkin

How to Carve a Jack o Lantern

How to Pick an Apple

The final write pages come with three choices to meet the needs of various leveled writers in your class!

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October Poems

Poetry is one other genre for students to enjoy reading.

October:

Leaves

Costume

Christopher Columbus

Bats

Campfire

Each poem has a poster, bookmark, poem for students to read and complete comprehension.  There is also a writing or data collection activity.

The final piece has students cut out sentence strips, put them in order and then draw a picture to tell about the poem.

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October Calendar

This packet is ideal for daily journaling about the weather, temperature and special events.

It also has a daily math review at the bottom of each journal page.

Calendar cover choices...Halloween and Autumn

Daily calendar, weather chart, temperature chart

Daily journaling pages with math review.

Numbers for calendar or number of days.

vocabulary...colorful and with pictures

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You might also enjoy these daily slides for your white board.

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Or here is the calendar bundle for the school year.

Bundle and save.

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October Word Searches

Builds vocabulary and visual skills.

Topics Include:

Red Ribbon

Fire Safety

Halloween

Autumn

Firefighters

Football 

Soccer

Sweetest Day

Columbus Day

School

Friends

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October...Print, Fold, Read, Color!

So simple...print, fold, read, color!

Ideal for students to read with a partner and then take it home and read with their parents.

Because each student has their own book they can highlight key words and highlight key facts.

The books are focused on events during the month of October:

Fire Safety

Columbus Day

Pumpkins

Halloween

Football

Red Ribbon

Autumn

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