Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Room on the Broom

Use Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Grab your copy of Julia Donaldson's Room on the Broom and delight your students with the story of a witch, her cat, and a dog who learn the importance of teamwork on a blustery Halloween night. As the threesome flies into the windy night, the witch loses another item, setting the stage for an enjoyable, repetitive storyline. Children will appreciate reading the rhyming text as more items get lost in the wind and more animals pile on the broom for a ride. As the threesome flies into the windy night, the witch loses another item, setting the stage for an enjoyable, repetitive storyline.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Room on the Broom in the drop down below.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Room on the Broom

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Room on the Broom

Julia Donaldson's Room on the Broom is a charming and entertaining Halloween read aloud. Help readers to identify the ways in which the author created and her entertaining story with this lesson plan and set of resources.
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Making Predictions with Room on the Broom

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Making Predictions with Room on the Broom

Room on the Broom is the perfect springboard for a making predictions minilessons. Use this book to teach readers how to use the picture clues to make predictions and how to support their predictions with evidence from the text.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Room on the Broom

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Retelling & Summarizing with Room on the Broom

Use this Halloween adventure to help readers learn how to retell and summarize while reading. With its repetitive storyline and a clear cast of characters, Room on the Broom will support readers who need to work on retelling stories.
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Understanding Text Structure with Room on the Broom

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Understanding Text Structure with Room on the Broom

The author of Room on the Broom uses a variety of text structures to tell her story. Show readers how the author uses sequencing, cause and effect, and description in her writing.
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Visualizing with Room on the Broom

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Visualizing with Room on the Broom

Room on the Broom offers readers dozens of opportunities to visualize action, setting, and characters. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers to make mental images that support the text and deepen comprehension.
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Diphthongs with Room on the Broom

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Diphthongs with Room on the Broom

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.

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Vocabulary Connections with Room on the Broom

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Vocabulary Connections with Room on the Broom

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.

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Running Record with Room on the Broom

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Running Record with Room on the Broom

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Room on the Broom. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Cause and Effect Matching with Room on the Broom

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Cause and Effect Matching with Room on the Broom

Read Room on the Broom 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 hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Room on the Broom. 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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Room on the Broom

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Room on the Broom

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Room on the Broom 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.

Story Elements with Room on the Broom

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Story Elements with Room on the Broom

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.

Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Predictions with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Retelling & Summarizing with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Visualizing with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Story Elements with Room on the Broom (Spanish)

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Title: Room on the Broom
Author: Julia Donaldson
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Halloween, Adventure, Friendship
ISBN: 9781405021746
Publisher's Summary:
A witch and her cat fly over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. They are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, but each animal asks for a ride. Is there room on the broom? This is a large format version of Julia Donaldson's story.
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