Caps for Sale | Book Activities and Craftivity

CAPS FOR SALE

The book Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina is a common guided reading story taught in First Grade. And of course, students love it! This book study unit is packed with literacy companion activities and a craft, and will help students in Kindergarten and First Grade develop essential literacy and reading comprehension skills!

CAPS FOR SALE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Caps for Sale tells the story of a peddler, who had caps for sale. He carried them around in a big, tall stack...on top of his head!

After a long day of trying to sell his caps, the paddler took a rest, sleeping for a long time.

When he awoke, there was a BIG problem. All of his caps were gone!

He looked up into the tree and saw that it was full of monkeys. And the monkeys were wearing his caps!

The peddler was angry. He told the monkeys to give the caps back, and shook a finger at them. The monkeys mimicked his actions, shaking their fingers at him!

The same thing happened when the peddler shook both his hands, stamped his foot, and stamped both his feet. This made him even angrier at the monkeys.

The peddler was so angry he took off his cap and threw it onto the ground. Can you guess what the monkeys did then?

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students with story elements, 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, cause and effect, reading comprehension, and much more!

These book activities can be used for whole class learning, 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!

This Caps for Sale book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

This Caps for Sale activity pack includes many different activities, making it easy for you to differentiate to suit your students' learning abilities and needs.

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten or First 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!

CAPS FOR SALE CRAFT

This Caps for Sale craftivity has students draw and write about their own stacks fo caps. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a sweet bulletin board display to showcase student learning.

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