Strega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaola is about planting and harvesting a garden. Big Anthony is back to his antics as he plants his own garden using Strega Nona’s magic spells. These resources in DIGITAL and PDF offer high engagement comprehension focused lessons your students will enjoy.
38 pages (1/2 PDF and 1/2 Google Slides TM)
$4.99
Strega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaola is about planting and harvesting a garden. Big Anthony is back to his antics as he plants his own garden using Strega Nona’s magic spells. These resources in DIGITAL and PDF offer high engagement comprehension focused lessons your students will enjoy.
The materials I’ve included are organized in a before, during, after format including vocabulary, comprehension skills, questioning task cards, and post reading writing prompts. Teachers can them in guided reading, with book clubs, as mentor text lessons, with partners, or in stations.
The bundle includes the following:
You will find 19 PDF and 19 Color pages for Google Slides TM to give you a variety of ways to teach each of the skill. A preview of the materials included is attached, so be sure to look closely. I organize my units in a before reading (schema builder, vocabulary, and skill introduction), during reading (skill application), and after reading (discussion and writing).
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Tomie DePaola is a favorite author of many elementary teachers. I have created resources for many of his books including:
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