Fall | October | Halloween Read Aloud Books and Activities – Apples and Pumpkins

Description

These picture books are perfect for fall and October themes, including Halloween, fire safety, apples, and pumpkins! Includes reading comprehension, writing, and crafts!

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This super-pack has many reading response activities and book-based crafts for the month of October! Includes comprehension and writing activities for 12 popular fall-themed books.

*Meets many common core standards!

*Many activities are differentiated!

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

Included are:

*When Autumn Falls* by Kelly Niday

-Main Idea and Details (differentiated)

-Signs of Fall Coloring Page

-Autumn/ Fall Nature Walk for signs of fall (cards included)

*Apples and Pumpkins* by Anne Rockwell

-Main Idea (differentiated)

-Apple & Pumpkin Life Cycle and Labeling Posters

-Compare/ Contrast Apples and Pumpkins

-Name Crafts (3 options)

*Room on the Broom* by Julia Donaldson

-Sequence and Retell Cards and Student Printable

-Predict the Ending

-Creative Writing

*Stellaluna* by Janell Cannon

-Beginning, Middle, End Writing Craft

-Vocabulary Cards and Activity

-Directed Drawing and Writing

*It’s Raining Bats and Frogs* by Rebecca Colby

-Rhyming Cards

-Story Recall

– 2 Reading Passages- Bats and Frogs

-Compare/ Contrast Bats and Frogs

*The Little Fire Truck* by Margery Cuyler

-Label the Firefighter and Tools

-Writing Paper with and without Picture Word Bank

-Stand up/ Sit down True/False activity

-Firefighter Hat

*The Little Scarecrow Boy* by Margaret Wise Brown

-Story Elements- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution

-Compare/Contrast to The Lonely Scarecrow

-Scarecrow Craft

*The Lonely Scarecrow* by Tim Preston

-Story Elements- Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution

-Compare/Contrast to The Little Scarecrow Boy

-MINI-BOOK: How to Make a Scarecrow

*I Need my Monster* by Amanda Noll

-Story Elements- characters, setting, problem, solution (differentiated)

-Build and Write a Monster (2 writing options)

-Cause and Effect

-Character Mapping

*The Little Old Lady who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything* by Linda Williams

-Predict Ending

-Sequence and Retell

-Build a Scarecrow CLASS-SIZED

-Build a Scarecrow STUDENT-SIZED with writing options

*Creepy Carrots* by Aaron Reynolds

-Beginning, Middle, End

-Favorite Part

-Creepy Carrot Garden

-Making Connections

*Big Pumpkin* by Erica Silverman

-Summarizing Lesson with cards and craft

*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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