The Bad Seed | Book Activities and Craftivity

THE BAD SEED

The Bad Seed by Jory John is about a seed that everyone thinks is bad. This read aloud is great for social emotional learning and talking about self improvement in Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. This book, paired with these book companion activities, will help students dig deeper into the story as they practice essential literacy and reading comprehension skills.

THE BAD SEED BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

 Why does everyone think that the Bad Seed is bad? Well, he does things like show up late to everything, tell long jokes with no punch lines, and doesn't put things back where they belong. He doesn't bathe, tells lies, and cuts in line. The list goes on....he's a bad seed. 

The bad seed wasn't always bad. He lived on a sunflower with his happy family. But in the fall the sunflower dropped its seeds. Then he was sealed in a bag of sunflower seeds, sent away to be eaten. He was fortunate enough to be spit out before he was consumed.

This event changed the seed. He became angry and kept to himself. Then one day the bad seed decided to change. He wanted to be happy. He still does bad things once in awhile. But he's trying, taking things one day at a time!

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your Kindergarten, First Grade and Second Grade students with story elements, making predictions, character traits, making text to self connections, author's purpose, main idea, making inferences, vocabulary, writing, giving opinions and advice, problem and solution, story retell, reading comprehension, and much more!

These activities can be used for whole class instruction, 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 Bad Seed book companion will save you tons of planning time, is no prep, and is great to leave for a sub!

Want to make sure you are hitting the reading standards for Kindergarten, First Grade, or Second Grade? This resource includes ELA standards charts for Common Core, TEKS and VA SOL, showing you exactly which skills your students are learning while doing these activities!

THE BAD SEED CRAFT

This Bad Seed craftivity has students draw and write about how the Bad Seed changed during the story, or make a text to self connection by writng and drawing about how they may have changed. This is a great follow-up activity after reading the book, and the craft makes a fun bulletin board display to showcase student learning.

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