THE WATERMELON SEED
The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli is a FUN read aloud for Kindergarten and First Grade! Students love Crocodile, and his fear that he will grow a watermelon in his stomach because he accidently swallowed a watermelon seed. Maybe they can relate?! This enjoyable book, paired with these reading companion activities, will help your students practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!
THE WATERMELON SEED BOOK ACTIVITIES & TEACHING IDEAS
Crocodile LOVES watermelon! It's his favorite food. He eats it for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. But oh, no! Crocodile has swallowed a watermelon seed, and now he fears he will grow a watermelon in his stomach! He will get big and turn pink and have vines growing out of his ears and become a fruit salad. What will he do?! Read the story to find out :)
This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten and First Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, cause and effect, story sequencing, 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 book study unit is packed with activities, so you can 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!
This book companion for The Watermelon Seed will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!
THE WATERMELON SEED CLASS BOOK
This fun class book has students writing and drawing about swallowing a seed and sharing what happens to them! They can choose what seed it is, and use their imaginations to describe what happens next. This book will be a student favorite in your classroom library!
THE WATERMELON SEED CRAFT
This Watermelon Seed craftivity has students draw and write a story retell or write about their favorite part of the story. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.
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