The Scarecrow Book Activities and Craftivity

THE SCARECROW

The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry is a sweet fall read aloud. This story is loved by Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students, and is a seasonal favorite! This autumn favorite, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!

THE SCARECROW BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Scarecrow does a good job standing in the meadow. The forest creatures don't dare to venture too close to him! One day a baby crow falls from a tree, and Scarecrow bends to pick it up and keep it safe. A bond is soon formed.

Scarecrow cares for the crow until it's able to fly away. He is now alone...and lonely.

The following spring, who should come back to visit? The crow, and its mate! They fix Scarecrow up, then make a nest in his pocket.

Soon there is a generation of new baby crows to love, and Scarecrow is happy.

The Scarecrow is a wonderful book to kick off the fall season in the classroom. It pairs nicely with any autumn theme study in primary classrooms. Students can enjoy a beautiful fall story while working on engaging literacy activities and developing their reading comprehension strategies.

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!

Of course, The Scarecrow's theme of friendship is one that students relate to and enjoy. And in this case, the unlikely friendship that develops between a scarecrow and crows is an unexpected twist that makes the story even more fun! This book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub.

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

This book study unit includes lots of activities, so you can differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

THE SCARECROW CRAFT

This Scarecrow craftivity has students draw and write a story retell or about their favorite part of the story. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun fall bulletin board display to showcase student learning