THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE SPOOKY activities, worksheets & lesson plan ideas

 This THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE SPOOKY Activities and Interactive Read Aloud Resource Book Companion Packet includes lesson plans, reading comprehension questions, vocabulary, grammar, phonics, writing and word study activities with both printable and digital student pages.

Following an interactive read aloud of the picture book, THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE SPOOKY by William March, choose from the included collection of either printable activities or go paperless and use the digital activities to practice standards-based skills. We've even included editable teaching slides themed to match the book!

THIS READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES

☐ MAKING PREDICTIONS

☐ ANALYZING CHARACTER

☐ MAKING CONNECTIONS

☐ PLOT | PROBLEM - SOLUTION

☐ IDENTIFYING THEME | MESSAGE | MORAL

 ◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS

☐ BASE WORDS

☐ CONTRACTIONS

☐ INTERJECTIONS

☐ SHADES OF MEANING

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS

☐ MANAGING STRESS AND ANXIETY

SUMMARY OF THE MENTOR TEXT:

It is Halloween and the seed in this book is in a bad mood. He is feeling crummy because Halloween is his favorite holiday and he can’t think of a costume idea. He has tried a few different ideas but none of them are just right. The seed wants something original, show stopping and perfect.

Feeling the stress of coming up with the perfect costume idea, the seed decides he needs to postpone Halloween. He decides to trick everyone into thinking Halloween has been moved to the following night. He tells them a big storm and a herd of seed eating squirrels are on the way! This will give him more time to come up with the best costume.

Then, a pair of pumpkin seeds stop by to talk to the seed. They notice that he is feeling down and explain that Halloween isn’t a competition. The seed learns that no one else cares what he is wearing and he shouldn’t worry about such small things. The seed decides to let everyone know about his trick and Halloween is back on!

He decides to dress up as a squirrel and joins the pumpkin seeds for a night of fun. This story celebrates the fun of Halloween and teaches students not to stress over the small things in life!

THIS COLLECTION OF ACTIVITIES and LESSON IDEAS INCLUDES:

➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables