Diary of a Fly Book Activities

DIARY OF A FLY

Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin is a fun read aloud for First Grade and Second Grade! Your students will love learning about life as a fly, and using these reading companion activities with the book will help them practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills as they dig deeper into the story!

DIARY OF A FLY BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Students love the Diary of a Worm/Spider/Fly series books by Doreen Cronin! The books help them take a peek into life as a bug. In this case, Fly writes diary entries that share about her life as a fly. She has hundreds of siblings, eats gross foods, and practices landing on her targets. This read aloud is engaging and fun, and students love these stories!

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your First Grade and Second Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, cause and effect, 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!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for 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 Diary of a Fly book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

DIARY OF A KID WRITING BOOK

The unit includes a writing activity book Diary of a Kid! Students can write their own diaries just like the fly. A variety of cover pages and blank template writing pages are included, to allow for differentiation.

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