Hey teachers, if you’re looking for a book to teach students about problem solving this fall, we highly recommend the book The Runaway. This is an engaging, rhyming book that elementary students are sure to enjoy. It lends itself to teaching a wide variety of language arts skills including writing, grammar, and reading comprehension. We think this book would be a great addition to your collection of fall read alouds. - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
The Baxter boys find a huge pumpkin that they decide they need to have. However, once they cut the stem the pumpkin starts to roll down the hillside almost into the Baxter farm! It crashes through the pig sty, knocks Grandpa Baxter for a loop and finally ends up resting in the bed that Poppa Baxter plows for it.
Once the pumpkin comes to a stop, the Baxter’s get excited about all the food that Granny can make from such a huge pumpkin. Come dinner time, she places all sorts of food on the table and sets up the giant jack-o-lantern she has made.
USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
The Runaway Pumpkin is a great mentor text for teaching students important reading comprehension strategies, writing skills, and grammar concepts. All of our book companions come with activities that relate to these subject areas. Check out just some of the skills included in our book companion!
- Practice analyzing the cause and effect of the characters actions throughout the book.
- Practice summarizing the important events and details from the book
- Integrate expository writing by asking students to write explanations for events that happened in the book.
- Allow students to get creative by writing their own version of the book.
- Use examples from the book to teach a lesson on action verbs and adjectives.
- Teach a lesson on nouns and articles.
- Have a class discussion about problem solving.
GET THE PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30 writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This resource is all you will need when it comes to planning your read aloud for the book The Runaway Pumpkin. Gone are the days when you have to brainstorm discussion questions, look online for student activities, and spend hours gathering resources. Now everything you need is included in this book companion allowing you to make choices on what you want to use with your students.
GET THE PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES
ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will also love these similar books:
- Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell
- Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White
- Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
- Pumpkin Town by Katie McKy
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