Junie B Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Book Study Activities

JUNIE B JONES AND THE YUCKY BLUCKY FRUITCAKE

Our favorite Kindergartener, Junie B Jones, is feeling very lucky in Junie B Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake by Barbara Park. She won playing games against Grampa Miller, and she feels her lucky streak will continue at school, at the school's Carnival Night. This read aloud, paired with these book companion activities, will help students in First Grade and Second Grade learn essential literacy and reading comprehension skills in a fun and engaging way!

JUNIE B JONES AND THE YUCKY BLUCKY FRUITCAKE BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS 

Junie B Jones spends her spare time practicing carnival games. Of course, in the process, she makes a big mess of the house. But she is determined, and wants to win hundreds of prizes!

Carnival Night finally arrived! Junie B was feeling lucky, with all of the practicing she'd done. Only things did not go very well. She lost at Ring Toss, and Penny Toss and Fishing Booth...and at every other carnival game she tried.

Junie's final activity at Carnival Night was the Cake Walk. The players had to march in a circle, stepping on numbered squares. When the music stopped, a lady pulled a number out of the hat. If you were standing on the matching number, you get to choose a cake!

Junie B's luck had changed. Her number was called! She got to choose a cake from the cake table. There were so many delicious options to choose from! Junie B Jones chose a fruitcake as her prize, much to her mother's dismay. 

Junie B was excited to try her fruitcake. Only it didn't taste much like fruit. In fact, it tasted yucky blucky!

This book study unit is packed with fun activities that will help your 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 Junie B Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake 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 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!

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