Apples and Pumpkins Activities | Read-Aloud Companion | Preschool, Kindergarten & 1st Grade

🍎🎃 Bring the magic of fall reading to life with this engaging Apples and Pumpkins Read-Aloud Companion!

Designed to accompany Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell, this 108-page, no-prep resource is filled with meaningful, hands-on, and differentiated activities for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade.

Take your students on a fall learning adventure as they explore apples, pumpkins, farms, Halloween traditions, story elements, vocabulary, sequencing, comprehension, writing, and more!

This resource is thoughtfully organized by grade level, making it easy to choose activities that best meet the needs of your students.

🍎 What’s Included?

Preschool Activities
• Fall farm vocabulary cards
• Picture and word matching
• Coloring activities
• Counting activities
• Sorting and matching
• Tracing practice
• Story sequencing
• Simple book review
• Draw and share activity
• Fall fun facts
• Preschool-friendly Halloween flipbook

🎃 Kindergarten Activities
• Fall farm vocabulary activities
• Vocabulary tracing and drawing
• Beginning, middle, and end
• Story comprehension questions
• Cut-and-paste sequencing
• Apples and pumpkins Venn diagram
• Pumpkin life cycle activity
• Making connections
• Guided writing
• Fall nonfiction connections
• Kindergarten Halloween flipbook

🍎 First Grade Activities
• Story maps and story elements
• Vocabulary activities and context clues
• Sequencing and timelines
• Comprehension questions
• Story detective activity
• Text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections
• Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then-Finally summary
• The 5 W’s
• Retelling sentence starters
• Fact or opinion
• Opinion writing
• Apple addition
• Count and color math activity
• Apple and pumpkin growth activities
• First Grade Halloween flipbook

🍂 Additional Activities Include:

• Create Your Own Jack-o'-Lantern
• Design Your Own Book Cover
• Mini-group comprehension activity
• Apple and pumpkin recording charts
• Retelling activity
• Story map
• Book review
• Pocket chart retelling materials
• Story element cards
• Bulletin board cutouts

🎃 A Unique Mini-Group Comprehension Activity!

After reading the story, revisit the text together and use the blank apple and pumpkin charts to record what students learn directly from the book. Students can search the text for information about apples and pumpkins while learning how having a purpose for reading can change the way they interact with a text.

Students can also extend their learning by adding information from their own background knowledge and experiences!

⭐ Perfect For:

• Fall read-alouds
• Apple units
• Pumpkin units
• October activities
• Halloween learning
• Literacy centers
• Small groups
• Whole-group instruction
• Morning work
• Early finishers
• Sub plans
• Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade classrooms

This no-prep read-aloud companion gives you plenty of flexible activities to use before, during, and after reading. Simply choose the pages that work best for your students and enjoy a fall-filled learning experience!

🍎🎃 Print, read, learn, and enjoy all the magic of fall!

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