Explore a spooky-school adventure and help your students dive into comprehension and word-skills with this engaging resource set. Students will strengthen their understanding of Making Inferences, Synthesizing, and Identifying the Author's Purpose through the story's events, characters, and illustrations. In addition to these key comprehension strategies, the set includes a word-work activity focused on Alliteration, where students identify examples like "purple, pointy, perfect" and craft their own fun phrases inspired by the story. This package supports creative thinking, close reading, and vocabulary development while tying directly into Jasper's battle to do the work that's really his—and out-smart a mysterious purple crayon.