This scarecrow themed activity is a fun fall partner play that helps your students improve their fluency and comprehension skills! It is just what you need for tutoring or small group lessons. Students love partner plays, and they’re a wonderful way to work on fluency and comprehension at the same time. The Farmer and the Scarecrow is an original three page partner play perfect for the fall. This scarecrow themed activity is intended for use in small groups, for partners during your literacy workstation rotations, or with your guided reading groups.

HOW TO USE THIS SCARECROW THEMED ACTIVITY WITH YOUR STUDENTS:

Teachers can use these engaging activities as a way to build reading fluency for the middle grades. Students love reading and rereading them to practice their parts. Activities are included for a BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER format to work on close reading skills. You can even assign different plays to different groups and have the students perform them.

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITHIN THE SCARECROW THEMED ACTIVITY RESOURCE?

• The Farmer and the Scarecrow Partner Play
• Schema Builder about Farming Vocabulary
• A Vocabulary Organizer with Word Cards (Context Clues)
• Questioning task cards (12 cards) and Response Sheet
• A Comprehension Page to work on Character Traits, and
• A Written Response Sheet for Summarizing or for Writing about Life on the Farm

WHAT STANDARDS ARE ADDRESSED WITH THIS ACTIVITY?

Students work on multiple skills with this resource. They improve fluency including phrasing, prosody, reading rate, and automaticity. Students also work on comprehension with practice finding text evidence to make comparisons, analyzing character traits and development, asking and answering questions, and story elements.

OTHER PARTNER PLAYS YOU MIGHT LIKE:

• The Great Pumpkin Heist
• The Stubborn Reindeer
• Rockin’ the Rock Cycle
• The Mystery of the Lost Mitten
• The Farmer and the Scarecrow
• Penguins on Parade
• Let’s Learn about Veteran’s Day
• Frosty’s Magical Appearance
• Shiver Me Timbers! The Ocean’s the Place for Me
• The Winner Takes the Prize
• Something Sharkie This Way Comes
• Tom’s Lucky Day
• The Gift of Reading
• The Missing Cookie Mystery

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TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ JD’s Rockin’ Readers (TpT Seller) says, “I have been using some of your partner scripts with my highest first graders during guided reading! They have been great! These kids are at higher reading levels but still need to be able to use context clues to figure out new vocabulary! These have been PERFECT for them! Thanks!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Primary Bliss (TpT Seller) says, “So fun! My kids loved this!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Valerie B. says, “This adds a little pizazz to center work. Thanks”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Patty K. says, “I used this in a small group. Helpful when learning about character traits.”

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