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Inside this book companion, you’ll find The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky ACTIVITIES and LESSON PLANS to make your Halloween read-aloud session extra fun and sppoky! These engaging The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky activities help students understand the heartwarming message that Halloween isn’t about having the best costume—it’s about togetherness and fun!
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
- A variety of The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky activities tailored to teach students that Halloween doesn’t need to be a competition.
- Creative opportunities to design their own costume for the Bad Seed.
- Detailed instructions to help teachers seamlessly guide the lesson.
BONUS! The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky Book Craft is included—your students will love making their very own Bad Seed costume!
Bring the spirit of Halloween alive in your classroom with The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky activities and enjoy a festive, fun-filled learning experience.
In this unit you will find 3 DAYS OF DETAILED LESSON PLANS to accompany reading The Good, the Bad and the Spooky by Jory John. The lessons are filled with rigorous and engaging activities to help your students effectively and meaningfully engage with the book. In this study you will focus on:
- Making inferences and predictions
- Character analysis (traits, motivation, feelings)
- Story elements (plot structure, point of view, key events)
- Retelling & Summarizing
- Problem & Solution and Cause & Effect
- Main idea & Theme
- Author’s purpose and message
- Reader’s response
- Design a Halloween costume craft
This unit includes discussion questions that can be used as stopping points while you read. The questions are available for print in two formats: printed on sticky notes using the template provided or on a single page for your reference.
ENGAGING UNIQUE ACTIVITIES TO GO ALONG WITH “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE SPOOKY” READ ALOUD — inside the unit you will find:
- INTRODUCING THE BOOK: making predictions about the book, draw your own cover
- INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS: analyzing the cover
- ACTIVATING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE: students write an explanation why they love Halloween and list their favorite things about it
- READER’S RESPONSE: making connection to other books, text-to-self connection
- CHARACTER ANALYSIS: 5 unique activities
- BOOK EXTENSION & CREATIVE WRITING: give 3 tips how to get into the spirit of the holiday and have a blast
- STORY ELEMENTS: plot structure, point of view, problem & solution
- SEQUENCING AND RETELLING: 5 unique activities
- CAUSE AND EFFECT: explain the cause or the effect of the events in the book.
- EXPLORING THE THEME: deepen your understanding of the theme of the story all while promoting character education
- AUTHOR’S MESSAGE & READER’S RESPONSE
- GROWTH MINDSET/INFERENCING: compare fixed mindest of the Bad Seed at the beginning of the story with the growth mindset at the end of the story
- BOOK RESPONSE/WRITING: write a letter to recommend reading ‘The Couch Potato’ by Jory John
- BOOK CRAFT: design a costume for the Bad Seed provided a costume idea
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THE FOOD GROUP SERIES by Jory John & Pete Oswald – BUNDLE
SAVE BIG with a BUNDLE of resources to accompany the beloved Food Group series books, including The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, The Cool Bean, The Great Eggscape, The Couch Potato, The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky, The Smart Cookie, As Cool as It Gets, The Sour Grape, and The Big Cheese by Jory John and Pete Oswald.CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE RESOURCE PAGE!
Perfect for your classroom read-alouds, every book in the series includes:
- 5 days of rigorous, engaging, and differentiated activities for each of the main books
- Focus on fostering creative thinking, social emotional learning, and growth mindset
- Detailed lesson plans packed with inferences, character analysis, vocabulary development, problem & solution, author’s purpose, and more
- Focus on fostering creative thinking, social emotional learning, and growth mindset
- Every book comes with a fun crafting activity
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Purchasing the bundle, you receive resources to go along with every book in the series with a 30% discount and get all future resources for free! CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL THE RESOURCES INCLUDED.
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