Use Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Delight your students with the whimsical story of a kind witch, her cat, and a group of helpful animal friends who learn the importance of teamwork on a blustery Halloween night. As the witch and her companions soar through the sky, she loses one item after another, setting the stage for a fun, repetitive storyline filled with rhyming text and delightful surprises. Children will love joining the adventure as new friends pile onto the broom—and discover that kindness and cooperation make the best kind of magic.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson as a springboard for instruction focused on diphthongs.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how two sounds of the "ow" letter combination are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with diphthongs.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Room on the Broom highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book. Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.
