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CREEPY CARROTS ACTIVITIES, LESSON PLANS AND IDEAS
Your kiddos will love the main character, Jasper Rabbit! See how we use this book as a week-long close reading comprehension activity. You can see how we respond to the writing prompts we created for this hilarious book by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown.
Students will also have so much fun making their own creepy carrots with craft and elementary teachers will love these “planned for you” lesson plans.
If you have not yet discovered Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds, you are in for a treat. Your students will laugh out loud with this fun book. We also love his other picture books, A Creepy Pair of Underpants and Creepy Crayon.
CREEPY CARROT ACTIVITIES
Reading Comprehension
During this close reading of the book Creepy Carrots, we focus on a different reading comprehension strategy each day. As teachers, we do the decoding work but ask our students to do the thinking work. Students discuss the book and collaborate to peel back the meaning of each book we read… even a silly book like Creepy Carrots. These Creepy Carrots activities are part of our whole group reading book activities, but you could work on responding in a small group reading setting.
Science supports the need for primary teachers to develop listening comprehension by providing more sophisticated texts. In the early grades, students’ listening comprehension vastly exceeds their reading comprehension. Interactive read-alouds perfectly combine picture books, fun activities, oral language, and comprehension.
According to authors Jan Burkins and Kari Yates in their fantastic book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classrooms, “… we must have an eye towards the future, focusing on stretching the limits of listening comprehension through oral language development.”
They also state. “In typically developing readers, listening comprehension and reading comprehension eventually become one and the same.”
Creepy Carrots Activities and Lesson Plans: Predictions
Making predictions is a valuable strategy that helps young learners tap into their prior knowledge and make educated guesses about what’s coming up next in a story. Think of it as their way of becoming reading detectives, using clues from the text to piece together each piece of the plot puzzle. By envisioning what’s around the corner, kids engage with the material and boost their comprehension skills.
Here is the writing prompt we ask students to discuss and ultimately respond.
- Jasper has made a plan. What do you think will happen next?
Creepy Carrots Activities and Lesson Plan Day 2: Text Details and Retelling
One activity we should include in every one of our lesson plans is retelling the story. This is an ideal interactive read-aloud activity. Students work as a whole group to sequence events by using the picture cards we provide with this picture book companion. Then, they turn to their partner and orally retell the events. Students practice using transition skills, which is excellent for oral language development.
Students work on retelling Creepy Carrots in this collaborative anchor chart activity. Can you see the picture of Crackenhopper field?
Then, we ask students to organize retelling story elements and events independently. Should they need support, they can always look at the group retelling chart the class did together.
Creepy Carrots Cause and Effect Lesson Plans Day 3
We also have students discuss the causes and effects of the events in Creepy Carrots. This response page is a great way to organize students’ thinking. It serves as one of the graphic organizers that aid in student discussion.
Creepy Carrots Lesson Plans Day 4 Making Connections
Students also make connections while reading Creepy Carrots. Students are asked to think about Jasper and some of his character traits and experiences and make a connection with some parts of the story.
Creepy Carrots Lesson Plans Day 5 Opinion Writing
Usually, on the final day of our week-long Creepy Carrots lessons, we plan an opinion response. By continually asking students to respond to opinion pieces, we have found their writing becomes more substantial when asked to write other opinion pieces. Creepy Carrots quickly became one of our favorite books last year.
Here are a few more examples of student responses to Creepy Carrots. These include the reading craft activity in the Engaging Readers unit.
Creepy Crayon Activities – Done for You Lesson Plans!
Kindergartners and first graders will have loads of classroom fun with this great story. In addition to the reading crafts and activities above, we also have:
- Vocabulary Activities
- Mentor Sentence Studies
- Grammar Studies
Creepy Carrot Digital Teacher Slides and Discussion File
We have added discussion slides to help guide your students during their partner work. You will find a teaching slide for each day!
You will find this included in the Engaging Reader Lesson Plans. It would be great for Halloween week or even in the spring when you study plants. You may even want to make other creepy vegetables! You will find this great resource on Teachers Pay Teachers:
Want More Books With Jasper the Rabbit?
I have also blogged about A Creepy Pair of Underwear. You can find that blog post by following this link:
Creepy Carrots Video
Would you like to listen to the book?
It is pretty hilarious! Here is a digital version of the book read by the author! You will want to have a copy of the book to read each day, but having a digital version helps to provide another model of reading fluency.
Learning and Movement October Themed
Because wiggling happens, this is a fun way to get those wiggles out!
This is a fun brain break too!
Each month comes with 4 ELA Skills and 4 Math Skills.
Free Creepy Carrots Week Long Lesson Plan Template
Would you like to grab this free lesson plan template? Just give the lesson plan image below a click, and you’ll be able to easily download the file from my Google Drive. It’s as simple as that! Plus, the PDF version of these lesson plans is conveniently linked to the resource for quick access.
Do you want to see more lesson plans like this?
You can download the free lesson planner spreadsheet so you can easily plan your activities!
Free Halloween Printable Activity
These Halloween themed activities would be perfect to go with Creepy Carrots!
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Deedee Wills
My teaching career allowed me to experience teaching in different classroom environments and grades. My heart belongs to early childhood education. My job is to make teaching FUN, ENGAGING, and EASIER. Welcome!
Hi, I'm DeedeE.
My teaching career allowed me to experience teaching in different classroom environments and grades. My heart belongs to early childhood education. My job is to make teaching FUN, ENGAGING, and EASIER. Welcome!
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