Theme: Halloween

Grade Levels: JK-SK –Grade One

Book Selection:

 The teeny tiny woman retold by Paul Galdone

 A dark dark tale by Ruth Brown

 Moonlight, the Halloween Cat by Cynthia Rylant

Learning Activities

 Interactive Read-aloud for A Dark Dark Tale

 Interactive Read-aloud for The Teeny-Tiny Woman

 Repeated Interactive Read-aloud for The Teeny-Tiny Woman

 Interactive think-aloud for The Teeny-Tiny Woman

 Repetitive Interactive Reading for Moonlight, the Halloween Cat

 Shared Reading – Predictable Chart for Moonlight, the Halloween Cat

 Story Grammar of a “dark” story

 Comparing a poem with a story

 Oral story retelling with a flannel board

 Book acting

 Vocabulary Instruction

 Art Activities

Instructional Materials

 Exploring the writer & illustrator’s craft for a pattern story presented with an instructional script

 Retelling with Sequence Pictures

 Vocabulary Instruction

 Detailed script for a page-by-page of modeling for The Teeny-Tiny Woman

 Support for ELLs

 Charts (words and pictures) for cloze reading for Moonlight, the Halloween Cat

Connections to other themes: Pumpkin, scarecrow, cats

Length of text: 10 pages

Format: PDF

Price: $10.00