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Creepy Carrots

This document provides teaching ideas and activities for the fiction book "Creepy Carrots" by Aaron Reynolds. It includes ideas for developing phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, math, and social science skills related to themes in the book such as vegetables, problem solving, and feelings. Activities incorporate r blends, nouns, verbs, contractions, sequencing, predictions, illustrations, graphing, and eating carrots.

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Creepy Carrots

This document provides teaching ideas and activities for the fiction book "Creepy Carrots" by Aaron Reynolds. It includes ideas for developing phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, writing, math, and social science skills related to themes in the book such as vegetables, problem solving, and feelings. Activities incorporate r blends, nouns, verbs, contractions, sequencing, predictions, illustrations, graphing, and eating carrots.

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Jen Appler Myers
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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

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