Description
The Fall Festival by Mercer Mayer is a wonderful fall book. If you love the Little Critter books, and this one is perfect for you! This comprehension focused book companion will help make planning for guided reading or book clubs easy and effective. It incudes a variety of skills to give you more options for close reading and fluency work. Skills are presented in a before, during, and after format, so you have all parts of your reading lesson covered.
WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE FALL FESTIVAL BY MERCER MAYER UNIT?
- schema builder for fall (alphaboxes)
- tier 2 vocabulary organizer and word cards
- making predictions
- comparing fiction and nonfiction
- making connections
- summarizing BME
- sequencing
- favorite scene and description
- questioning task cards and response form
- column notes on parts of a story
HOW TEACHERS CAN USE THE FALL FESTIVAL BY MERCER MAYER UNIT:
The pages can be printed and put under a document camera for group discussion or projected using TPT Easel. Students can work in teams to brainstorm ideas when working in whole group or work on specific skills with the teacher in guided reading groups. Teachers can also use this resource for book clubs for more independent readers.
WHAT OTHER TEACHERS THOUGHT OF THE FALL FESTIVAL BY MERCER MAYER UNIT:
~These were great activities to use both during group and individual speech/language therapy sessions.
~Great for guided reading!
~Children were able to practice many reading skills with this packet.
~This is awesome for my lower learners in 3rd as well! Thanks much!
OTHER TITLES YOU MIGHT LIKE FOR YOUNG READERS:
- Biscuit and the Little Pup
- Biscuit Visits the Big City
- Biscuit
- Follow Me Mittens
- Chester
- Danny and the Dinosaur
- Sammy the Seal
- A Horse for Harry’s Room
- Lois Ehlert Books
- Clifford Unit
- Just Critters Who Care
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Stephanie M. –
Another great unit!!
Buyer –
Love these activities!
Jennifer B. –
The kids love Little Critter! Can’t wait to use it!
Jennifer Kirchmeier –
Thank you for the great product! can’t wait to use it!!
Buyer –
Thank you for such a wonderful resource!
Heather Greene –
Thanks you very much. I can’t wait to use this on “H” day since this year we can’t do Halloween.
Teaching Elementary –
My kids will really enjoy this. Good for differentiation too
Buyer B. –
I love the problem and solution you included into this packet. Thank you so much!!!
Annmarie S. –
Love it !
Teaching Kidz –
Can’t wait to use this! It looks awesome!!
Heather H. –
Great packet! I know my kids will love these activities because Little Critter is always a hit.
Cheryl Herrick –
Kiddos love Little Critter! Thank you for this resource.
Rebecca P. –
Fun activity! Thanks. Great for small group instruction.
Elizabeth T. –
Fun fall activities. tfs.
Heather F. –
Thank you so much for sharing! I missed last nights so i was super excited to see i made it this time. Will be using this next week with the kiddos!
Cecile H. –
Thank you, Thank you. I was so disappointed that I missed that unit last night. Little Critter is a favorite of everyone, including me. Thanks for sharing your hard work.
mjadams –
Thank you for sharing!
A Series of 3rd Grade Events –
Thanks for sharing!
Patti 🙂
Buyer –
thank you I am so excited since I just added this book to my library!
The Primary Patch –
I just love Mercer Mayer stories! Hope our library has it 🙂
Angela M. –
This is awesome for my lower learners in 3rd as well! Thanks much!
The Primary School Teacher –
Great, thanks!!!!
Georgeann S. –
thanks.
Lorri B. –
Thank you!!
jennifer M. –
Can’t wait to use!
Heather King –
Great product!
Shannon G. –
Great!
Casey T. –
This is great! Thank you!
Robin Grumbine –
My kids loved this!
Weekday Warrior –
Thanks
Lauren Grimmett –
Excellent!
Norma D. –
Children were able to practice many reading skills with this packet.
Laura Whooley –
great for guided reading!
josilene clark –
Very good!
Heather Hillis –
Great resource!
Robin E. –
This was a great activity to use both during group and individual speech/language therapy sessions.
Hannah T. –
I love it, thank you!
Tanya M. –
Fun little activity that can be used 1:1 or small group settings. Thanks!