Leaves Book Activities and Craftivity

LEAVES A BOOK BY ROBERT MUNSCH

Fall is here, and so is the new book Leaves! by Robert Munsch. It is the perfect book to read in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade during the autumn season! Leaves, leaves, everywhere! This entertaining book, paired with these book companion activities, will help students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way.

LEAVES BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

In the story, dad notices that the yard is covered in leaves. He announces that they are going to rake the leaves to get rid of them. 

The children head into the garage in search of rakes. Only, Sydney finds dad's leaf blower. Soon she has blown all the leaves into a giant pile. But in doing so, she has lost her little sister! Ooops!

After digging out their sibling, Alex decides to try the leaf blower. He gives it even more power, and makes a giant leaf pile. Only in doing so he covers up Sydney! Oops!

Dad is frustrated. The children are supposed to be using rakes, not his leaf blower. Dad takes the leaf blower to show them how it should be used. Dad cranks the power to WHOA!!! and blew all the leaves, plus the table, the chairs, the swing, and everything else in the backyard into a giant pile.

Only mom had been working in the garden...and is now buried under the giant leaf pile. Oops! Mom proceeds to throw the leaf blower in the garbage, and everyone grabs a rake to clean up the leaves.

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!

This Leaves 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!

LEAVES CRAFT

This unit includes a craftivity where students can do a story retell or write about their favorite part of the story. The craft makes a great fall bulletin board display, to showcase student learning!

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