Trick or Treat Crankenstein

Trick or Treat Crankenstein is the new Halloween book by Samantha Berger. It features our favorite cranky dude...Crankenstein!

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will love learning new reading comprehension skills and literacy elements as they follow Crankenstein through his terrible Halloween.

TRICK OR TREAT CRANKENSTEIN BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Crankenstein is upset (again!) It is his favorite holiday...Halloween...but nothing is going quite right! Poor Crankenstein wakes up with a toothache, can't quite get his Halloween costume right, and his pesky brother steals candy from his Halloween stash!

Your Kindergarten and First Grade students will have fun with this engaging read aloud, while learning key literacy skills with the engaging reading activities in this guided reading unit.

This Trick or Treat Crankenstein book study is packed with activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, story retell, writing activities, problem & solution, making text to self connections, and visualizing the story by making mental images.

The unit also includes activities that will help your students develop their vocabulary, define the author's purpose, think about the story's main idea or theme, offer opinions and advice, recognize character development, notice cause & effect, and check for understanding with comprehension questions.

The pack includes this class book, where each student can contribute a page, sharing what would make them have a cranky Halloween. It will be a class favorite in your classroom library!

The activities in this literacy unit are aligned with Common Core, TEKS, and VA SOL learning standards. Checklists for the standards are included in the unit.

This book study can be used as a whole class activity, during small group guided reading time, as individual student work, or as part of a book club. Copy a pack for each student and you're ready to go!