Literature Ideas

Title: Creepy Carrots

Author: Aaron Reynolds
Fiction or Nonfiction Fiction (fantasy)
Theme: Scary things, Vegetables
Reading

Writing

Phonics/Phonemic Awareness:

r consonant blends (cr, gr, scr, br)

Word Identification:

proper nouns, common nouns

verbs with -ed, -ing ending
contractions

Math

Comprehension/Vocabulary:

Prediction
Literary Device: Suspense
Sequence the Events
Personal Connection

Transition words (tell a story words)

first, that night, the next morning,
by the end of the week, as the sun
finally set
Dialogue and tag words other than
said
Surprise endings
Write a story about another food or
item rebelling against humans

hatched
passion
yanked
sinister

Use carrots as a manipulative to

add, subtract, multiply, divide
Elapsed time (or telling time)

Fluency

How to read in text

Large text
!
Social Sciences

Food Groups:
sorting vegetables/fruits
How to solve a problem
Feelings

Collect data and graph favorite

vegetable

Other

Caldecot Honor books

Art illustrations/drawing
Pair with other vegetable
books: Tops and Bottoms,
Growing Vegetable Soup,
Carrot Soup
Eat carrots for snack