"Creepy Carrots" Book Companion Activities

This picture book companion is a perfect accompaniment to Aaron Reynolds’s book, Creepy Carrots. It’s the ideal interactive read-aloud for the days or weeks before Halloween or Easter, or for educating your students about acceptance, inclusiveness, kindness, and greed. Students will love the engaging and fun activities, and you will appreciate the time saved hunting for high-level resources to teach reading concepts that students frequently struggle with.

With 29 print-and-go reading activities to choose from, this resource is ideal for customizing learning to your student’s specific needs and academic ability. Students will investigate characters, identify story elements, identify the theme, sequence events from the story, explore and use new vocabulary, discover cause-and-effect relationships, explore plot elements, and much more! The activities provided are designed to enable students to apply higher-level thinking skills, to encourage students to provide text evidence to support their thinking, and to challenge students to express their own thoughts and/or perspectives.

This Resource Includes:

• See, Think, Wonder
• Story Elements - 2 differentiated versions are included for this activity
• Jasper’s Problem & Solution
• The Carrots Problem & Solution
• Cause & Effect - 2 differentiated versions are included for this activity (ANSWER KEY included)
• Who is Jasper Rabbit?
• Character Traits - 2 differentiated versions are included for this activity
• Carrots Creeping
• Character Perspective
• Character Development
• Story Retell (ANSWER KEY included)
• Sequencing
• Plot Map (ANSWER KEY included)
• Summarizing
• Making Inferences
• Making Connections
• Sensory Details
• Theme - 2 differentiated versions are included for this activity
• Thematic Statements
• Reader Response Questions (ANSWER KEY included)
• Vocabulary Matching Cards (COLOR & B&W)
• Synonyms (ANSWER KEY included)
• Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle (ANSWER KEY included)
• Creepy Carrot Creation
• Wait… There’s More!
• Book Review