Diary of a Spider Book Activities

DIARY OF A SPIDER

Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin is a fun read aloud for First Grade and Second Grade! Your students will love learning about life as a spider, and using these reading companion activities with the book will help them practice important literacy and reading comprehension skills as they dig deeper into the story! 

DIARY OF A SPIDER BOOK ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING IDEAS

Being a spider is not easy! You need to watch out for vacuum cleaners, people with big feet, and Daddy Longlegs. It's fun to scare tiny bugs and people using water fountains at the park. Spider has some bug friends, like Worm and Fly. Check out the book to find out what Spider's life is like!

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, cause and effect, 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!

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!

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

DIARY OF A KID WRITING ACTIVITY BOOK

The unit includes a writing activity book Diary of a Kid! Students can write their own diaries just like the spider. A variety of cover pages and blank template writing pages are included, to allow for differentiation.

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