These pumpkins reading comprehension activities offer engaging, meaningful practice to greatly improve your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th grade students’ reading and writing skills. Each of the reading graphic organizers included in this set can be used over and over and with ANY pumpkin book you choose.

A graphic organizer is a visual display that organizes ideas and shows the relationships between concepts or information. Graphic organizers guide childrens' thinking and help them to comprehend what they read. Graphic organizers are also an important tool for guiding student writing. 

There are many benefits to elementary students using graphic organizers. They help students brainstorm ideas, organize their thoughts, structure a writing project, collect information while researching, increase reading comprehension, plan for literature circles and book talks, examine relationships in literature, and guide their thinking.

This resource includes tools for teaching the following:

✓ predicting

✓ sequencing

✓ story mapping

✓ summarizing

✓ character traits

✓ schema

✓ brainstorming / webbing

✓ identifying facts

✓ main idea and supporting details

✓ non-fiction text features

✓ gathering information

✓ comparing and contrasting

✓ cause and effect

✓ fact and opinion

✓ note taking

✓ vocabulary and author word choices

✓ visualizing

✓ making connection

✓ sorting information

✓ report writing

✓ retelling

This pumpkins resource is great for

◼️ whole group lessons

◼️ small group instruction

◼️ literacy centers

◼️ writing centers

◼️ readers workshop

◼️ writers workshop

◼️ RTI

◼️ morning work

◼️ homework

◼️ sub plans

5 REASONS TEACHERS LOVE THIS PUMPKIN RESOURCE:

► These graphic organizer resources require no prep. Simply print, copy and go!

► They can be used with ANY book, so students can complete the same activity with books at their reading level. This makes it easy to differentiate!

► The printable templates are differentiated, so you can select which ones best meet your students’ needs.

► Graphic organizers will improve your students’ abilities to organize their ideas and communicate them in a coherent manner.

► You can reteach and reassess as needed because each organizer can be used over and over again

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