October Halloween Reading Activities K-1st Grade Reading Comprehension & Lessons

Ready to get your kindergarten and 1st grade students engaged this October with fun learning activities for Halloween? This Fiction and Nonfiction DIFFERENTIATED October Shared Reading / Close Reading / Interactive Read Aloud Bundle includes FOUR WEEKS of comprehensive lesson plans for October and Halloween. These scarecrows, pumpkins, and bats Read Alouds are simple and easy to use, fun, rigorous, and standards based aligned. EVERYTHING you need is included for October and Halloween! The phonics worksheets, vocabulary, comprehension questions, writing graphic organizers, crafts, and lessons plans are perfect for subs too!

You will be able to use the comprehensive lesson plans for your Shared Reading / Close Reading / Interactive Read Aloud block. You will love having 5 days of integrated activities already prepared for you! This Bundle has everything you need for October... even the CRAFTS!

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Picture Books Needed for this October Interactive Read Aloud Bundle:

• The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, by Steven Kroll
• Stellaluna, by Janell Cannon
• Bats, by National Geographic Kids
• Jeb Scarecrow's Pumpkin Patch, by Jana Dillon

This October/Fall/ Halloween Bundle Covers the Following Skills:

Jeb Scarecrow Read Aloud focuses on the following skills:

• Problems and Solutions
• Narrative, Explanatory, and Opinion Writing
• Character Traits
• Compare and Contrast
• Making Predictions
• Sequencing and Retelling Story
• Antonyms and Synonyms
• Vocabulary
• Story Comprehension
• Graphing
• Phonics Medial Vowels
• Rhyming Words
• Using Graphic Organizers
• Speaking and Listening Skills
• Living and Nonliving Things

Jeb Scarecrow Read Aloud Includes:

• 6 Daily Writing Cut & Paste Focus Question (8 per page)
• 6 Daily Writing Flip-Tab Cover Focus Questions (2 per page)
• Phonics Cut and Paste Sheets
• 8 Story Comprehension Questions
• 8 Illustrated Vocabulary Cards
• 4 Colorful and Illustrated Posters on Featured Skills
• 2 Colorful and Illustrated 5 x 7 Cards for Phonics
• 2 Living and Nonliving 5 x 7 Science Cards
• 5 DAYS of Differentiated by Grade Level Lesson Plans
• 5 question YES or NO Test
• 2 Problem and Solution Graphic Organizers
• Graphing Question in Color and Black and White
• Graphing Color and Black and White Pieces
• Somebody Wanted But So Then Graphic Organizer
• Story Elements for Main Idea Graphic Organizer
• TEST

Stellaluna Read Aloud focuses on the following skills:

• Concepts of Print
• Sequencing
• Compare and Contrast Characters
• Making Predictions
• Vocabulary
• Problems and Solutions
• Writing Narrative and Opinion Pieces
• Rhyming Words
• Initial Sounds for ST-
• Final Sounds for -TCH

Stellaluna Bat Read Aloud Includes:

• Graphic organizers
• Five Days of K-3rd Differentiated Lesson Plans
• Compare and Contrast Bats and Birds
• 5 question TEST (2 per page)
• Students ELA vocabulary sheet (4 cards per page)
• 8 Illustrated Comprehension cards (4 per page)
• Student SEQUENCE Worksheet (2 per page)
• 3 Cut and Paste Writing Focus Questions (8 per page)
• 3 Flip Tab Covers Writing Focus Questions (2 per page)
• Bat Take Home Project
• Bat Project Parent Note
• Bat Project Pattern
• Character Traits Sorting Worksheet
• 1 -ed and -ad phonics Sorting Worksheet
• 1 INITIAL and ENDING Sounds Sorting Worksheet
• 4 Illustrated 5 x 7 Colored Phonics Cards (2 per page)
• Answer Keys for Worksheets
• Character Traits Example Sheet
• Character Traits Colored Poster
• Fiction Illustrated Colored Poster
• Nonfiction Illustrated Color Poster
• Nonfiction Black and White Graphing Activity
• Predicting Color Graphing Activity
• Color and Black and White Graphing Pieces

Nonfiction Bats Read Aloud Includes:

• Five Days of Differentiated Lesson Plans
• Choice of 4 Focus Questions for Daily Writing
• Bats Diagram
• Black & White Nonfiction Graphing Activity and Poster
• Color Life Cycle Graphing Activity and Poster
• Life Cycle of a Bat Poster (8.5x11)
• Bat Life Cycle Worksheet
• Fiction and Non-Fiction Posters in color (8.5 x 11)
• 8 Vocabulary Cards (uses real photos)
• Vocabulary student cards (4 per page)
• 8 Comprehension Cards
• Test 5 Question (2 per page)
• Bats Informative Writing Graphic Organizer
• Shared Research Project Sheet
• Teacher Answer Keys

Skills Covered in the Nonfiction BAT Read Aloud:

• Compare and Contrast Fiction and Nonfiction Books
• Compare and Contrast Bats and Birds
• Using Venn Diagrams
• Using various Graphic Organizers to Record Information
• Labeling parts of a Bats
• Life Cycle of Bats
• Parts of a Book
• Glossary
• Table of Contents
• How to use each part of a Non-Fiction Book
• Making Predictions
• Building Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Informative/Explanatory Writing
• Shared Research Bat Projects

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever October Read Aloud Book Companion Includes:

• 5 Days of Lesson Plans for K-3rd Grade
• Fiction Story Poster (8.5 x 11)
• Character Traits Poster (8.5 x 11)
• Somebody Wanted But So Then Colored Poster (8.5 x 11)
• Initial B and P 5 x 7 Posters
• B and P Cut and Paste Concept Sort
• Inside and Outside 5 x 7 Posters
• Inside Outside Concept Sort
• DAILY Differentiated Lesson Plans for K-3rd Grades
• 12 Comprehension Cards
• 8 Illustrated Vocabulary Cards
• 5 Cut and Paste Focus Writing Questions (8 per page)
• 5 Flip Tab Cover Focus Questions (2 per page)
• Story Sequence Cut and Paste Student Sheet (2 per page)
• Vocabulary Student Cards (4 per page)
• YES or NO 5 Question Test with Writing Questions
• 2 Graphic Organizers for Problem and Solutions
• 1 Draw and Write Problem and Solution Pages
• 3 Jack-o-lantern Craft Patterns with Accessories
• Compare and Contrast Characters Graphic Organizer
• Compare and Contrast Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns Graphic Organizer
• Making Predictions Color Graphing Activity
• Graphing Black and White Activity
• Somebody Wanted But So Then Graphic Organizer
• Main Idea Graphic Organizer
• Five Question Yes or No Test

The Biggest Pumpkin Ever Read October Aloud Focus Skills:

• Reading Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Sequencing Using Time Order Words
• Making Predictions
• Problems and Solutions
• Building Vocabulary
• Comparing and Contrasting Characters
• Comparing and Contrasting Pumpkins and Jack-O-Lanterns
• Listening and Speaking Skills
• Narrative Writing
• Opinion Writing
• Categorizing Inside and Outside
• Character Traits
• Main Idea
• Initial Sounds for B and P
• Purpose of Authors and Illustrator

You will guide your students in whole group and small group reading instruction as they learn about bats, scarecrows, pumpkins, fiction, and nonfiction books using this Halloween and Fall read aloud bundle!

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