The Widow's Broom Activities - Reading Comprehension and Literacy Skills

Teach multiple literacy skills with The Widow’s Broom book by Chris Van Allsburg. These comprehensive The Widow’s Broom activities reinforce reading comprehension skills and are ideal for elementary teachers who incorporate picture books into their reading lessons.

With these The Widow’s Broom activities, your students will engage in:

• active and meaningful discussions
• challenging but achievable activities suitable for different abilities
• making connections with their own experiences
• playing cut-and-stick activities and games

Find everything you need in this time-saving literacy resource full of The Widow’s Broom printables.

SKILLS TARGETED 
The Widow’s Broom activities include NO-PREP literacy graphic organizers covering different reading comprehension skills:

• Cause and effect in The Widow’s Broom
• Character traits in The Widow’s Broom
• Read-aloud questions are organized chronologically and by different reading skills.
• Inference and prediction activities
• Main idea and theme with specific examples related to The Widow’s Broom
• Making connections, including text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world
• Point of view activities
• Problem and solution activities
• The Widow’s Broom sequencing and retelling activities have text and visual images, including black and white and coloured versions.

CHECK OUT THE PREVIEW FOR ACTIVITY PHOTOS AND CONTENTS PAGE

These literacy skills are reinforced further with The Widow’s Broom read-aloud questions, which you can use before, during, and after reading the book.

DIFFERENTIATION
The Widow’s Broom worksheets and questions are opinion-based and open-ended, allowing for easy differentiation.

Each comprehension skill has activities with different difficulty levels, so all you have to do is choose the best pages for your student’s needs.

Many of The Widow’s Broom activities have boxes your students can respond to with text or illustrations.

OVERVIEW

• This is a supplemental product. You can choose the most relevant pages for your needs and your student’s abilities and understanding.
• Prep is quick and easy. Just print the pages you need!
• All you need to prepare is the book or story.
• The Widow’s Broom worksheets feature a clean and straightforward design with images inspired by the book.

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