September/Back-to-School Read-Alouds: Comp. Skills and Writing Activities

Description

These picture books are perfect for back to school! Includes popular read alouds for the beginning of the year, and responses for comprehension, writing, plus back to school crafts!

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This super-pack has many reading response activities and book-based crafts for the months of August, September, and beyond! Includes comprehension and writing activities for 11 popular September/Back-to-School books.

*Meets many common core standards!

*Many activities are differentiated!

*So much to see-take a look at preview!*

Included are:

*David Goes to School* by David Shannon

-Categorizing/Classifying

-Character Analysis

-Letter-Writing

-David Craft

*How Will I Get to School This Year?* by Jerry Palotta

-Realism/Fantasy

-Recall and Evaluation

-Creative Writing- Class book

*If You Take a Mouse to School* by Laura Numeroff

-Sequencing

-Character Analysis

-Mouse Craft

*There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books* by Lucille Colandro

-Predicting

-Sequencing, with craft

*The Rainbow Fish* by Marcus Pfister

-Story Elements- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution

-Cause/Effect

-Rainbow Fish Craft

*Chrysanthemum* by Kevin Henkes

-Cause/Effect

-Anagram Activity

-Name Craft

*The Kissing Hand* by Audrey Penn

-Story Elements- Beginning, Middle, End

-Making Connections

-Writing Response

-Kissing Hand Handprint Card

*Hooway for Wodney Wat* by Helen Lester

-Story Elements- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution

-Compare/Contrast

-Fact/Opinion

*Gingerbread Man Loose in School* by Laura Murray

-Perfect for the first week of school! Take your kids on a hunt

around the school while giving them a tour!

-Creative Writing

*A Letter from My Teacher on the First Day of School* by Shannon Olsen

-Teacher notes and letters

-Mailbox craft

*The Hungry Thing* by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler

-Class book

-Hungry Thing puppet for Phoneme Manipulation

*BONUS* Reading Response Journal!

Students can draw or write about their favorite part of each book. Use the cover and staple into booklets to send home at the end of the month!

Thanks for reading!

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Reading Response Sets

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