Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
The Pumpkin Book By Gail Gibbons
Growing Pumpkins published Newbridge
Using a chart to
help compare several non-fiction pumpkin books.
Day One The Pumpkin
Book By Gail Gibbons
Teacher should prepare a chart with these headings ahead of time:
Who is doing the planting of the pumpkin seeds?
What kind of tools were used?
What will they do with the pumpkins?
Did the pumpkins become a jack-o-lantern?
Before Reading
The Pumpkin Book
Read the above questions to the class.
During Reading
Re-read the first one, read the book to the class until reaching the
page with the answer to the question on it. Pause. Call on someone to
answer:
Who is doing the
planting of the pumpkin seeds?
Call on another
student to read the part of the book that tells us the answer. You are
trying to get the students to realize that the answers are RIGHT THERE
in the book.
Continue until all
the questions are answered and the book is read.
After Reading
Fill in the chart whole group, revisiting the pages with the answers.
Make sure one child is answering, another child is reading the page
with the answer on it.
Day Two Growing Pumpkins by Newbridge
Teacher should prepare a chart with these headings ahead of time:
Who is doing the planting of the pumpkin seeds?
What kind of tools were used?
What will they do with the pumpkins?
Did the pumpkins become a jack-o-lantern?
Before Reading
Growing Pumpkins
Read the above questions to the class.
During Reading
Re-read the first one, read the book to the class until reaching the
page with the answer to the question on it. Pause. Call on someone to
answer:
Who is doing the
planting of the pumpkin seeds?
Call on another
student to read the part of the book that tells us the answer. You are
trying to get the students to realize that the answers are RIGHT THERE
in the book.
Continue until all
the questions are answered and the book is read.
After Reading
Fill in the chart whole group, revisiting the pages with the answers.
Make sure one child is answering, another child is reading the page
with the answer on it. Discuss the differences and similarities between
the books.
Day Three Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
Teacher should prepare a chart with these headings ahead of time:
Who is doing the planting of the pumpkin seeds?
What kind of tools were used?
What will they do with the pumpkins?
Did the pumpkins become a jack-o-lantern?
Before Reading Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
Read the above questions to the class.
During Reading
Re-read the first one, read the book to the class until reaching the
page with the answer to the question on it. Pause. Call on someone to
answer:
Who is doing the
planting of the pumpkin seeds?
Call on another
student to read the part of the book that tells us the answer. You are
trying to get the students to realize that the answers are RIGHT THERE
in the book.
Continue until all
the questions are answered and the book is read.
After Reading
Fill in the chart whole group, revisiting the pages with the answers.
Make sure one child is answering, another child is reading the page
with the answer on it. Discuss the differences and similarities between
the books.
Day Four Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
Before Reading
Set the purpose We are going to re-tell the story. Pay attention to
the order of what happens in the story.
During Reading
First reading with
teacher
Shared reading
Read each page or two
Summarize what happens
Records the information on a sentence strip and put it in a pocket chart.
Second reading
Read the book with a partner. I also provide each partner set with a
paper listing the steps in a mixed up order. Have the students read
the book with their partner. Then cut up the sentences and glue on a
piece of paper in the correct order. Some teachers have the students
EACH complete a paper. Some teachers have the students complete ONE
paper per pair. It is the teacher's choice.
After Reading
Re-tell the story and use story sentence strips to build the story as
it is retold.
Day Five Pumpkin,
Pumpkin
Teacher needs to re-write the sentence strips from yesterday so that
there are TWO sets (one to leave whole, one to cut into words).
Before Reading
Word order affects understanding. First, the teacher will read a sentence
strip in the pocket chart to the students. Then the teacher will cut
up the sentence into words. I'm cutting off the....... I'm cutting off
the ....... Teacher should put the words back in order. Show the class
the same sentence uncut and match the words showing the students that
these words say the same thing as the sentence strip. Teacher continues
to cut up each sentence into words modeling that the words make a sentence.
During Reading
Read Pumpkin, Pumpkin with partners.
Give each partner group a sentence to rebuild.
After Reading
Have the students compare their sentences with the chart to make sure
they've built the sentence correctly. Often teachers will have the students
glue their words onto a big piece of construction paper and illustrate
it making a class big book. Class Big Book is now available for SSR
time.
OTHER LESSONS
Cooking with Pumpkin
Seeds Science and Writing
Collect pumpkin
seeds (many teachers carve pumpkins and do lots of math activities with
these pumpkins). Read a toasted pumpkin seed recipe from a book to the
class. Record the recipe on chart paper. Rewrite the steps so the class
can read the steps.
Provide the students
with a four page pumpkin shaped blank books. Together write the steps
for making toasted pumpkin seeds with the teacher modeling thinking
and spelling. Use sequencing words:
First
Next
Then
Last
Have the children
illustrate their recipe books. Have the students read their Pumpkin
Seed Recipe books for easy reading and take them home to share with
parents.
