Halloween Guided Reading with a Purpose Main Idea and Details Book Companions

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I loved these engaging resources and my students did as well! It was so fun to switch it up and do Halloween stuff!
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I LOVE to embrace Halloween and use it to teach and review comprehension strategies. The focus reading strategy for this week is main idea and details, although there is SO MUCH more included. Each day a different story will focus on main idea and details, characters, setting, and predicting. his unit includes daily lesson plans, posters, parent connect letter,original strategy songs, comprehension strategies,literacy connections, extension activities, sort activities, and crafts.

Books Featured using Main Idea and Details:

  • Room on the Broom by Donaldson
  • The Little Old Lady who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything by
  • Click, Clack Boo by Cronin
  • Scaredy Cat, Splat!
  • Froggy’s Halloween London

Read all about this fun week here!

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Halloween Fun 2

Halloween Fun 1

It also contains some of the activities from my witch's brew

They are all part of this bundle!

Witch's Brew:

  • Song
  • Cards
  • Main Idea and Details
  • 2 Cauldron Activities
  • Matching
  • Writing Activity
  • Colorful Posters

Other activities included are:

The Teeny Tiny Ghost! By Winters

  • Predict/Recall
  • Character Senses
  • Vocabualry
  • Narrative Writing

Halloween by Gibbons

  • Fact or Opinion
  • Informative Writing
  • Narrative Prewriting
  • Narrative Writing

Room on the Broom by Donaldson

  • Colorful posters: predict, main idea, details, characters, setting, title page, question cards, retelling cards
  • Main Idea & Details 4 Options
  • Making Predictions
  • Sequencing
  • Fiction or Nonfiction
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Character Analysis 2 options
  • Story Mapping
  • Recall
  • Beginning, Middle, & End 3 options
  • Rhyming
  • Retelling Story Map & Writing
  • Opinion Story Map & Writing
  • Make a List Writing
  • Alphabetizing
  • Word Search
  • Syllables
  • Making Words
  • Unscramble
  • Roll, Add and Cover the Broomsticks
  • Adding 2 Bingo
  • Witch Craft
  • Letters that spell “All are welcome in my B”room!”

The Little Old Lady who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything

  • Colorful posters: predict, main idea, details, characters, setting, title page, question cards, retelling cards
  • Main Idea & Details 5 Options
  • Making Predictions
  • Matching
  • Recall
  • Sequencing
  • Color & B&W Cards for story sharing (I put them on large popsicle sticks and print enough for a class set.)
  • Fiction or Nonfiction
  • Character Analysis
  • Making Connections Key Events
  • Character Feeling
  • My Opinion
  • Retelling B,M,E
  • Retelling Story Map & Writing
  • Opinion Story Map & Writing
  • Make a List Writing
  • Alphabetizing
  • Word Search
  • Syllables
  • Making Words
  • Unscramble
  • Roll, Add to 100
  • Roll & Subtract
  • Scarecrow Craft
  • Letters that spell “We are something to crow about!”

In the Haunted House by Bunting

  • Narrative Prewriting
  • Narrative Writing

More Writing Fun…Halloween costumes, Top 10, ABC order

CRAFTS: witch, cat, ghost, jack-o-lanters!

Click, Clack Boo by Cronin

  • Analyze/Evaluate
  • Cause/Effect
  • Halloween Contest: Make a List
  • Character Senses
  • Classroom Hunt
  • Design a Costume
  • Descriptive Writing

Froggy’s Halloween London

  • Colorful posters: predict, main idea, details, characters, setting, title page, question cards, retelling cards
  • Main Idea & Details 4 Options
  • Making Predictions
  • Sequencing
  • Beginning, Middle, & End
  • Text to Self
  • Author’s Purpose
  • Fiction or Nonfiction
  • Story Mapping
  • Character Analysis
    Key Event
  • Character Feeling
  • True or False
  • Retelling Story Map & Writing
  • Opinion Story Map & Writing
  • Make a List Writing
  • How to get Ready for Halloween Writing
  • Alphabetizing
  • Word Search
  • Syllables
  • Making Words
  • Unscramble
  • Roll & Move Gameboard
  • Froggy Spin a Ten
  • Froggy Craft
  • Letters that spell “HOPPY HALLOWEEN”

Scaredy Cat, Splat!

  • Colorful posters: predict, main idea, details, characters, setting, title page, question cards, retelling cards
  • Main Idea & Details 4 options
  • Making Predictions 2 options
  • Sequencing 8 cards with pictures
  • Questions
  • Cause and Effect
  • Vocabulary “Scared”
  • Beginning, Middle, & End
  • Character Analysis
  • Text Connections
  • Retelling Story Map & Writing
  • Opinion Story Map & Writing
  • I am Afraid of….Writing
  • Alphabetizing
  • Word Search
  • Syllables
  • Making Words
  • Unscramble
  • Roll & Move Gameboard
  • 3 Roll Bingo
  • Splat and a jack-o-lantern craft
  • Splat paper topper craft
  • Letters that spell “Scaredy Cats”

Five Little Monkeys Trick-or-Treat

Beginning, Middle, End

  • Text Evidence
  • True/False
  • Opinion Prewriting
  • Opinion Writing
  • Design a Treat
  • List of Treats
  • List of Tricks
  • Monkey Costume Craft

This is part of a weekly series of units covering different reading strategies throughout the year. Guided Reading with a Purpose MEGA BUNDLE.

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

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