Use Creepy Crayon! by Aaron Reynolds to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Explore the spooky-school adventure of Jasper Rabbit in Creepy Crayon! 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.
In Creepy Crayon!, students will explore how Aaron Reynolds and illustrator Peter Brown use color, humor, and surprise to share a deeper message about honesty and hard work. By analyzing key moments in the text and illustrations, readers will consider why the author made certain choices—like ending the story with a twist—and what lesson he wants them to take away. This activity helps students understand how an author's purpose shapes both the tone and theme of a story.
In Creepy Crayon!, students will use text and illustrations to infer what the mysterious purple crayon is up to and how Jasper feels about it. As they notice spooky details in the words and pictures, readers will uncover clues about the crayon's motives, Jasper's reactions, and the story's lesson while building deeper understanding through this delightfully eerie read.
In Creepy Crayon!, students will synthesize information from different parts of the story to understand how Jasper changes from beginning to end. By connecting his actions and feelings across key moments—finding the crayon, relying on it, and finally letting it go—readers will see how Jasper grows and what lesson he learns. This activity helps students recognize how new details shape their understanding of both the character and the story's overall message.
This resource set invites students to explore alliteration is used in the story and how they can create their own fun "spooky crayon" phrases. With activities focused on identifying pairs such as "purple, pointy, perfect" and crafting fresh alliterations, this set supports phonemic awareness and creativity while staying closely connected to Jasper Rabbit's creepy crayon adventure.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Creepy Crayon! highlights key words that are essential for students to understand while reading the story. Through engaging activities such as word games, word-to-definition and picture matching, and word categorization practice, students will build the vocabulary they need to comprehend this story—and many others—with confidence.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Creepy Crayon! includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.
This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.
This resource set gives students a fun opportunity to grade Jasper Rabbit's behavior in the story. Students will review how Jasper acts and what he does, assign him a grade of A, B, C, D, or F in each category, and then write one sentence explaining their grade using evidence from the story.
Read Creepy Crayon! then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Creepy Crayon!. Each cause card is marked with a square, and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.
