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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Pumpkin Book

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Use The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

From seed to vine to Halloween jack-o-lanterns, author, Gail Gibbons, covers all things pumpkin in this nonfiction book for beginning readers. Students will enjoy using comprehension strategies to learn how pumpkins grow, why they are an important part of history, and how they carve their own Halloween jack-o-lanterns.
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Determining Importance with The Pumpkin Book

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Determining Importance with The Pumpkin Book

Connect your students to the season by learning fun facts about pumpkins. The step-by-step format of this book is perfect for readers learning how to identify which information is the most important.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.6RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.1c
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.6I2.9D(ii)2.7A2.9D(iii)2.7B2.13C2.7C2.13E2.1A2.7D2.13G2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8A2.6B2.8C2.6E2.9C2.6G2.9D(i)
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Making Connections with The Pumpkin Book

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Making Connections with The Pumpkin Book

Most students have some experience with pumpkins, which makes The Pumpkin Book a good choice for practicing examples of text-to-self connections. You could also use this book as an anchor text for a nonfiction genre study or a supplement to your science curriculum, which would allow readers to practice text-to-text and text-to-world connections as well.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.2RI.2.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.6A2.9D(ii)2.6E2.9D(iii)2.6I2.13C2.7A2.13E2.7B2.13G2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.9D(i)
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Retelling & Summarizing with The Pumpkin Book

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Pumpkin Book

This book and lesson plan are ideal for supporting readers who need to practice retelling and summarizing key facts from nonfiction texts. The detailed illustrations will guide readers as they identify what happens first, next, then last in the growth cycle of a pumpkin.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RI.2.4RI.2.6RI.2.7RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3RI.2.1W.2.8RI.2.2L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.13G2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8A2.1D2.8C2.6A2.8D2.6G2.9C2.6I2.9D(i)2.7A2.9D(ii)2.7B2.9D(iii)2.7C2.13C2.7D2.13E2.7E
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Understanding Text Structure with The Pumpkin Book

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Understanding Text Structure with The Pumpkin Book

This book provides readers with an opportunity to gather information from a variety of nonfiction text features, including illustrations, captions and diagrams. As a result, developing readers will begin to see how these types of nonfiction text structures can be used to enhance comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.1RI.2.5RI.2.7RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1b
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.13C2.7D2.13E2.7E2.13G2.7F2.8C2.1A2.9C2.1C2.9D(i)2.1D2.9D(ii)2.6A2.9D(iii)2.6I2.10B2.7B2.10C2.7C
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Visualizing with The Pumpkin Book

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Visualizing with The Pumpkin Book

In The Pumpkin Book, the author uses highly descriptive words to explain the process of what happens to a pumpkin seed as it begins to grow and turn into a pumpkin. This is a great opportunity for students to practice identifying descriptive words that help them construct mental images.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RI.2.3RI.2.7RI.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.9D(ii)2.6I2.9D(iii)2.7A2.10C2.7B2.13C2.7C2.13E2.7D2.13G2.1A2.7E2.1C2.7F2.1D2.8C2.6A2.9C2.6D2.9D(i)2.6E
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Digraphs with The Pumpkin Book

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Digraphs with The Pumpkin Book

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how digraph -th is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.2.3RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
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Vocabulary Connections with The Pumpkin Book

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Vocabulary Connections with The Pumpkin Book

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Pumpkin Book 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.2.4aL.2.5aL.2.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 2.3B2.3D2.7E2.7F2.3A
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Running Record with The Pumpkin Book

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Running Record with The Pumpkin Book

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Pumpkin Book. 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.

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True or False with The Pumpkin Book

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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.
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Determining Importance with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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Making Connections with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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Visualizing with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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True or False with The Pumpkin Book (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: The Pumpkin Book
Author: Gail Gibbons
Genre: Nonfiction
Themes: Halloween, Plants, Fall
ISBN: 9780823416363
Publisher's Summary:
In this cheerfully-illustrated, simply-presented book, children can learn about the growth cycle and many varieties of pumpkins, and even how to plant their own. Award-winning author Gail Gibbons also relates the special role pumpkins played in the first Thanksgiving, the history behind carving pumpkins into jack'o'lanterns, and how pumpkins are still part of our celebrations today.
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