The Turnip Jan Brett Book Activities

THE TURNIP - A BOOK BY JAN BRETT

Jan Brett's The Turnip is a great read aloud for a plants or gardening theme in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade in the spring. The Turnip, along with these book companion literacy activities, will help your students dig deeper into the story as they work on engaging reading comprehension activities.

THE TURNIP BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

In Jan Brett's book The Turnip, Badger Girl discovers an ENORMOUS turnip growing in her garden. There was only one problem...how was she going to pull it up out of the ground? Soon the whole badger family was working together to tug on the turnip. But it wouldn't budge! Other animals came to lend a hand. The turnip would not come up out of the ground. Rooster came along, and said he thought that he could pull it up...

Underneath the turnip, in their den, some bears noticed the bottom of the turnip growing down into their home. They pushed the turnip up as the other animals tugged from the top, and out it came! Of course, the animals above ground thought that Rooster had been the one to make the difference. They made turnip pancakes to celebrate Rooster.

This book study for The Turnip is packed with activities that will help your students work on story elements, character traits, story retell, writing activities, problem and solution, author's purpose, main idea, reading comprehension, and much more!

The companion activities can be used for whole class learning, 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!

This book companion for The Turnip will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

THE TURNIP JAN BRETT CRAFT

This craft for The Turnip has students draw and write a story retell or write about their favorite part of the story. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.