Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Watermelon Seed

Use The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

With colorful illustrations and a lovable main character, students will delight in reading this award-winning story about a crocodile who loves watermelon more than any other food. The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli provides readers with an engaging text that offers readers many opportunities to practice comprehension strategies ranging from predicting to retelling and summarizing.  

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with The Watermelon Seed in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Asking Questions with The Watermelon Seed

Asking Questions with The Watermelon Seed

The Watermelon Seed is a highly effective text for teaching students the skill of asking questions. The plot of the story, main character, and illustrations will naturally appeal to young readers, so they will have no trouble asking and answering questions as they read!

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Making Connections with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Making Connections with The Watermelon Seed

Making Connections with The Watermelon Seed

Students will think critically in this mini lesson by using the text and illustrations in the book along with their own background knowledge to make text to text, text to self, and text to world connections.

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Making Predictions with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Making Predictions with The Watermelon Seed

Making Predictions with The Watermelon Seed

This mini lesson will provide students with ample opportunities to make before, during, and after reading predictions using the engaging illustrations and plot of The Watermelon Seed.

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Retelling & Summarizing with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Retelling & Summarizing with The Watermelon Seed

Retelling & Summarizing with The Watermelon Seed

With a simple-to-follow plot and only one character, The Watermelon Seed is a perfect text for introducing and practicing the skill of retelling and summarizing to young readers.

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Visualizing with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Visualizing with The Watermelon Seed

Visualizing with The Watermelon Seed

The bright, colorful, and inventive illustrations in this book make it a great fit for students to practice the skill of visualizing. The illustrations bring the text content to life to delight early readers.

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Vowels with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Vowels with The Watermelon Seed

Vowels with The Watermelon Seed

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how short u and short i sounds are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with short u and short i words.

 

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Vocabulary Connections with The Watermelon Seed

The first page of Vocabulary Connections with The Watermelon Seed

Vocabulary Connections with The Watermelon Seed

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Watermelon Seed 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
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with The Watermelon Seed

Thumbnail for Running Record with The Watermelon Seed

Running Record with The Watermelon Seed

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Watermelon Seed. 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 The Watermelon Seed

Thumbnail for Cause and Effect Matching with The Watermelon Seed

Cause and Effect Matching with The Watermelon Seed

Read The Watermelon Seed 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 The Watermelon Seed. 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 The Watermelon Seed

Thumbnail for Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Watermelon Seed

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Watermelon Seed

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Watermelon Seed 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.

Sequencing with The Watermelon Seed

Thumbnail for Sequencing with The Watermelon Seed

Sequencing with The Watermelon Seed

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

 

Asking Questions with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

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

Making Connections with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

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

Making Predictions with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

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

Retelling & Summarizing with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

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

Visualizing with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

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

Sequencing with The Watermelon Seed (Spanish)

Worksheet

Get Full Access to the Entire Library of Resources when You Join Today!

Unlock the potential of the books in your school and classroom libraries with lesson plans, activities, and resources expertly designed to help you meet your instructional goals
  • Teach with the best children's books
  • Always have access to new resources
  • Get access to Digial Classroom - perfect for centers
  • Finally have time to "fit it all in" with super efficient lesson plans
  • Enjoy fast planning tools and stay super organized with a personal file cabinet and dashboard
30 Day Risk-Free Guarantee, Cancel Anytime

About the Book

The cover for the book The Watermelon Seed
Title: The Watermelon Seed
Author: Greg Pizzoli
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Award Winners, Summer, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9781423171010
Publisher's Summary:
With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.
Content and Downloadable content Copyright ©2010-2024 Thinking Tree Enterprises, LLC. All other trademarks, service marks and trade names referenced on this site are the property of their respective owners. Please see our Terms of Use.

We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
©BookPagez.com 2010 - 2023

Save BIG on Your Shortcut to Teaching through the Holidays - and Beyond

You’ve got all the books you and your students love. Now it’s time to grab the resources that make teaching with them eaiser than ever.
This weekend only, you can get a full year of BookPagez for just $29.
That means instant access to thousands of ready-to-go lesson plans and activities for your favorite children’s books at the lowest price we'll ever offer.
Hurry! Sale ends soon.

Resource Downloading disabled

Your ability to download resources is currently disabled. Please contact us at support@bookpagez.com

Oops!  It looks Like You're Getting Carried Away. 

When you joined BookPagez, you agreed to follow our Terms of Use. Based on your download activty, it looks like you've gotten carried away.

You are allowed to download resources to use in your classroom for the duration of your subscription. You are not allowed to bulk download resources. In other words, it's against the rules to download all (or most) of the resources. That's stealing, and it's not nice.

Please check your email for a message from us. Reply to the email and let us know what's going on so we can reactivate your account.
In order to continue, please indicate that you agree with the terms above

Get instant access to this resource plus thousands more when you join today.

  • Teach with the best books
  • Always have access to new resources (published every month!)
  • Get full access to Digital Classroom
  • Finally have time to "fit it all in" with super efficient lesson plans
  • Enjoy fast planning tools and stay organized with your personal file cabinet and dashboard