2nd Grade Literature Centers

Halloween Readers Theatre - The Witch Who Lost Her Magic

By Clodagh

The Witch Who Lost Her Magic - Halloween Readers Theatre Script for Year 3-5

Description: Bring the magic of Halloween into your classroom with this fun and engaging Readers Theatre script: The Witch Who Lost Her Magic!

Perfect for Year 3-5 students, this Halloween themed script tells the enchanting story of Hazel, a mischievous witch who loses her magic and must perform acts of kindness to restore it. This delightful readers theatre script will have your students laughing, learning, and improving their reading fluency, all while celebrating the spooky season!

What's Inside:

  • A 5 scene, easy to read Halloween Readers Theatre script.
  • 6 engaging characters: Hazel the Witch, Broomie the talking broomstick, Ollie the Owl, Ginger the Goblin, Flora the Fairy, and a Narrator.
  • Themed for Halloween, with a message of kindness and teamwork.
  • Designed for Year 3-5 readers, with dialogue that encourages expressive reading and collaboration.

Why You’ll Love It:

  • Perfect for Halloween: Get your students excited about Halloween with a script that's spooky but sweet!
  • Builds Reading Fluency: This Readers Theatre script offers repeated reading opportunities, helping students improve their fluency, expression, and comprehension.
  • Engages All Learners: The fun, quirky characters and magical storyline will keep even the most reluctant readers engaged.
  • No Prep, Just Print and Go: Simple to use in literacy centers, guided reading, or even for a class performance. All you need to do is print and enjoy!

How It Works:

  • Perfect for group reading or small performances, this Readers Theatre script encourages teamwork and reading confidence.
  • A great fit for Halloween literacy centers, as a classroom play, or even as a fun end of October activity.

Looking for more Halloween resources? Make sure you check out these, they are perfect for halloween literacy centres...

Halloween Readers Theatre - The Ghost Who Lost His Scare

Halloween Description Writing

Halloween Writing Prompts

Halloween Reading Comprehension - The Witch Who Changed Her Ways

Halloween Activities Booklet

Halloween Scavenger Hunt

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Ten Timid Ghosts Book Activities Companion Read Aloud Questions

By Dotty's Printables

This is a set of companion activities for Ten Timid Ghosts, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no-prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

  • Title and Author Identification
  • Illustrator Recognition
  • Setting Exploration
  • Favorite Part Reflection
  • Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
  • Book Rating
  • Illustration Activity
  • Problem and Solution Identification
  • ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "Ten Timid Ghosts".

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Fall Leaf Tracing Cards - Writing Center

By Morgan Jeffries

Fall Themed Alphabet & Number Tracing flashcards - Fall Themed Learning Activity

What’s Included In This Package:

  • Uppercase Letter Tracing Cards A-Z
  • lowercase letter tracing cards a-z
  • Uppercase & lowercase letter tracing cards Aa-Zz
  • Number Tracing Cards 1-10

This is a great activity to help your students practice holding a pencil and writing their numbers and letters.

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Short E Word CVC Cards

By Pacific Street Playschool

Short E Word CVC Cards

This set includes 20 short A word CVC cards including -eb, -eg, -em, -en, -es, -et PLUS two blank CVC cards.

Each card includes:

  • REAL pictures
  • CVC word with each letter boxed off

This set is the perfect addition to any literacy or writing center and can be used for teacher and student led activities in many different ways!

  • Spelling and writing practice
  • Letter sound correspondence
  • Emergent reading support

Why real pictures?

Help students make connections to the world around them. When we provide materials and resources with real pictures versus drawing and clip-art, there leaves little to no room for error.

While clip-art and illustrations can be fun and useful, they have a place. Allow your students to view real life pictures to reference and to help make connections!

There is no mistaking what these images depict making it easier for our young learners to decode the CVC words!

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Cause and Effect - 2 Piece Puzzles Task Cards - PRINTABLE NO PREP

By All Therapy Resources

This resource contains 8 fun, colorful and engaging two piece puzzles which explores cause & effect.

There are a total of 8 puzzles in colour and 8 puzzles in black and white. This is a great resource for early learners which includes Pre-k, Kindergarten (Prep) and special education.

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The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses Literature Circle Response Packet- Book Club!

By Veronica Reyes

This packet is a literature response to The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

This book is at a Level N.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Character Analysis

- Quotes

- Text Connections

- Opinion

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Letter Writing Craft: The Day the Crayons Quit

By Qiang Ma

It is a fun engaging writing task your students will enjoy. Prep Free! Ready to Go!

Task:

1. Students are going to write in the name of each crayon eight letters to the owner to express the opinions of crayons using the Air Mail Craft Book pages.

2. Each student will follow informational writing format (topic sentence and detail sentences) for each letter.

Step by step assignment directions are giving using the book "The Day the Crayons Quit" by Drew Daywalt as a model.

You could use this Air Mail papers to write anything letters.

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Magic Tree House #51 High Time for Heroes

By Rachel Thiry

Magic Tree House High Time for Heroes is book #51 in the series. Jack and Annie meet Florence Nightingale! What secret of greatness will they find? Sharing a book with a close group of friends is a special time in my classroom. Students love the closeness of the small group and reading a book chosen just for them! Included in the packet: -comprehension questions for each chapter -vocabulary -research opportunities -answer key for chapter questions High Time for Heroes is an AR level 4.1 book. We hope your students enjoy this Magic Tree House adventure! Please leave your comments and feedback, we enjoy hearing from you. Also, we would love to have you follow us to receive notifications about our new TeachShare products, sales, and freebies. Thanks for visiting and checking out our store! ~ Judy & Rachel ~

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The Invisible Boy Activities: Back to School Read Aloud Literature Unit

By Kirsten's Kaboodle

The Invisible Boy Activities and Worksheets:

The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig is a sweet story about a boy who feels invisible. With the help of a new student and his own courage, The Invisible Boy develops friendships and connections with his classmates. This is the perfect back to school read aloud for your classroom.

The Invisible Boy Literature Unit is Common Core aligned and includes these easy to use concepts and activities:

  • Read aloud activity and discussion questions (also printed on task cards to create an option for a writing center or small group work)
  • Who, what, when, where, & why
  • Vocabulary (an answer key is included for the vocabulary)
  • Brainstorming on a web
  • Various writing exercises/prompts
  • Letter writing
  • An exercise in empathy
  • Author's purpose

All activities are tied directly to The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig.

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DRAGON GIRLS Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon NOVEL STUDY

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for DRAGON GIRLS Azmina the Gold Glitter Dragon.
This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 2, 3 and 4 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.

This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

  • COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER

  • Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.

  • Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work.

  • Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot.

  • Book response - creative responses, written responses.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

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Halloween Night - A Halloween Reader's Theater

By Mr. Lee's Learners

This #Halloween reader's theater is a companion activity to the book “Halloween Night” by Marjorie Dennis Murray. It will enable the children to enjoy the story even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills. #HappyHalloween

About the Book

This rhyming story tells of a group of animals, monsters, and witches, who prepare such a frightening Halloween party that their expected trick-or-treaters all run away.

There are two versions included. The only difference between the versions is the number of parts. One version has roles for three students, the other version has roles for four students. Each version is 3 pages.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students.

AR Test No. 127768 Grade Level 3.6

Halloween Reader’s Theater:

Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan - A Halloween Reader's Theater

Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween? - A Halloween Reader’s Theater

Click, Clack, Boo! - A Halloween Reader’s Theater

Spooky Hour - A Halloween Reader's Theater

The Night Before Halloween - A Halloween Reader's Theater

Halloween Reader's Theater Bundle

All Reader's Theater Script

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The Giving Tree Activities Shel Silverstein Book Companion Read Aloud Questions

By Dotty's Printables

This is a set of companion activities for The Giving Tree, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no-prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

  • Title and Author Identification
  • Illustrator Recognition
  • Setting Exploration
  • Favorite Part Reflection
  • Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
  • Book Rating
  • Illustration Activity
  • Problem and Solution Identification
  • ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "The Giving Tree".

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Pumpkin Themed Matching Game (Letters - Numbers - Shapes) Fall Activities

By Morgan Jeffries

Pumpkin-Themed Letters, Shapes, & Numbers Matching Game - Fall-Themed Activities:

The apples with numbers have another apple with the corresponding number of apple seeds to match. This helps students practice one-to-one correspondence and number recognition.

The pumpkins with letters have an Uppercase and lowercase letter to match. This helps students start learning and matching the correct letters together.

There are #2 sets of each pumpkin shape flashcard. This helps students start recognizing and matching shapes together.

I would print and laminate these for better durability.

  • Numbers 1-10

(with flashcards that have the correct number of pumpkin seeds to match each number. This helps students practice counting and one-to-one correspondence)

  • Capital Letters A-Z
  • Lowercase Letters a-z
  • Shapes:

(two of each for matching purposes)

Square Triangle

Rectangle Circle

Star Heart

Hexagon Pentagon

Diamond Oval

Octagon

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Pretend Play Recording Sheets || Realistic Writing Prompts || Literacy & Writing

By Pacific Street Playschool

Pretend Play Recording Sheets || Realistic Writing Prompts

These pretend play recording sheets were created to add literacy supports to your dramatic play center, writing center, or other areas you see fit!

This set includes 10 colored and 10 black & white prompts:

  1. Restaurant Check
  2. Bakery Order Form
  3. Ice Cream Order Form
  4. Student Report Card
  5. Daycare Daily Activity Log
  6. Library Card
  7. Doctor's Appointment
  8. Dental Exam
  9. Veterinarian Appointment
  10. Traffic Ticket

Created to look realistic to help support student's imaginative play while making connections to everyday life.

How should these be used?

There are so many ways for these writing prompts to be used!

  • Place in dramatic play to correspond and support current units of study

  • Place in the writing center to act as a writing and literacy support for students to use

  • Laminate for long term use! Simply print, cut, laminate, use dry erase markers to write, erase, and reuse!

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Keywords: Pretend Play, Dramatic Play, Writing Center, Centers, Writing Prompts, Realistic Prompts, Restaurant Check, Bakery Order Form, Ice Cream Order Form, Student Report Card, Daycare Daily Activity Log, Library Card, Doctor Appointment, Dental Exam, Veterinarian Exam, Traffic Ticket

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Goodnight Moon | Literature Circle Response Packet | Book Club | Graphic

By Veronica Reyes

This packet is a literature response to Goodnight Moon. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

This book is at a Level H.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Text Connections

- Opinion

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Owl at Home - poke cards

By Rachel Thiry

Owl At Home poke cards are a great independent, partner or guided reading group comprehension activity. The poke cards are self checking. Students will answer the question by selecting one of three choices. Using a pencil, straw, or pipe cleaner, students will poke through the hole to choose their answer. The correct answer will have a mark above or around the hole. The poking process quickly engages the students and provides immediate feedback to them. Cards have chapter titles on them for ease of organization. Teacher Preparation: -Print on card stock for durability. -Using a hole punch, at each * punch a hole. -Identify the correct answer and draw a circle around the hole or mark an X above the hole. -Laminate for durability.

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I am Lucille Ball by Brad Meltzer Literature Unit Activities w/ Digital Option

By Kirsten's Kaboodle

I am Lucille Ball by Brad Meltzer - This literature companion for I am Lucille Ball was created for 2nd-4th grade students. This is one of several literature units from the "Ordinary People Change the World" series.

This unit can be used without the book I am Lucille Ball, but students may have to dig a little to find the answers to the comprehension questions. It is beneficial to have a copy of the book.

In this literature unit, you will find the following:

  • Teacher Tips - 1 page
  • Lucille Ball Biographical Sketch - 1 page
  • Comprehension Questions for I am Lucille Ball - 1 page
  • All About Lucille Ball - 1 page
  • Lucille Ball Discussion Question Task Cards & answer sheet - 3 pages
  • Lucille Ball Writing Prompt - 1 page
  • Newspaper Template - 2 pages
  • Fact and Opinion - 1 page
  • Vocabulary - 1 page
  • Growth Mindset - 1 page
  • Let's TELL JOKES! - 1 page
  • Compare and Contrast - 1 page
  • Writing Prompt - 1 page
  • Lucille Ball Mad Libs Recording Sheet - 1 page
  • Lucille Ball Mad Libs Story - 1 page
  • Writing a Friendly Letter - 2 pages
  • Answer keys where appropriate - 5 pages
  • Terms of Use - 1 page

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As of 9/23/21, this product includes a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

BUNDLE #2: If you are looking for the bundle with literature units for books published between 2022-PRESENT, you will find them in THIS BUNDLE, which contains the following titles:

  • I AM MALALA YOUSAFZAI BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM MUHAMMAD ALI BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM I.M. PEI BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM DOLLY PARTON BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM TEMPLE GRANDIN BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM JOHN LEWIS BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM MISTER ROGERS
  • I AM RUTH BADER GINSBURG
  • I AM STEPHEN HAWKING
  • I AM JESSE OWENS

BUNDLE #1: If you are looking for the bundle with literature units for books published between 2014-2021, you will find them HERE, and that bundle contains the following titles:

  • I AM JACKIE ROBINSON BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM HELEN KELLER BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM LUCILLE BALL BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM AMELIA EARHART BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM ABRAHAM LINCOLN BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM ALBERT EINSTEIN BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM ROSA PARKS BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM JANE GOODALL BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM GEORGE WASHINGTON BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM JIM HENSON BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM SACAGAWEA BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM GANDHI BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM HARRIET TUBMAN BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM SONIA SOTOMAYOR BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM NEIL ARMSTRONG BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM BILLIE JEAN KING BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM WALT DISNEY BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM MARIE CURIE BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM ANNE FRANK BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM FRIDA KAHLO BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM OPRAH WINFREY BY BRAD MELTZER
  • I AM LEONARDO DA VINCI BY BRAD MELTZER

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THE GRIFFIN GATE by Vashti Hardy NOVEL STUDY and Comprehension

By The Book Bandit

A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for THE GRIFFIN GATE by Vashti Hardy.
This resource is an engaging and comprehensive unit that allows your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover many of the Grades 2, 3, 4 and 5 ELA Common Core State Standards in context.

This unit is packed with Common Core aligned activities and includes printable and digital versions.

The Unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

  • COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER

  • Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualising, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analysing, synthesising, understanding vocabulary in context.

  • Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view, venn diagrams, writing, vocabulary work.

  • Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot.

  • Book response - creative responses, written responses.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases!

Dragon Masters - Rise of the Earth Dragon

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Diper Overlode

Spaceboy by David Walliams

Thank you for your continued support.

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The Night Before Halloween by Natasha Wing - Halloween Reader's Theater

By Mr. Lee's Learners

This #Halloween Reader's Theater is a companion activity to the book “The Night Before Halloween” by Natasha Wing. It will enable the children to enjoy the story even more as well as increase reading fluency and speaking skills.

About the Book

Little monsters and goofy goblins take center stage in this silly, spooky spin on Clement C. Moore's beloved poem. But what will happen on Halloween when the monsters come face to face with human trick-or-treaters in this fun-filled book by the author of The Night Before Easter?

There are two versions included. One version has roles for three students and the other version has roles for four students. Both versions are 4 pages.

I hope you enjoy using this reader’s theater with your students. #HappyHalloween

AR Test No. 104991 Grade Level 3.3

Halloween Reader’s Theater:

Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin-Picking Plan - A Halloween Reader's Theater

Who Will Haunt My House on Halloween? - A Halloween Reader’s Theater

Click, Clack, Boo! - A Halloween Reader’s Theater

Halloween Night - A Halloween Reader's Theater

Spooky Hour - A Halloween Reader's Theater

Halloween Reader's Theater Bundle

All Reader's Theater Script

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Thank you, Omu Book Companion Activities Read Aloud Reading Questions

By Dotty's Printables

This is a set of companion activities for Thank you, Omu, perfect for extension work after a read-aloud of the story. These no-prep activities help students engage deeply with the themes and characters, making it an ideal addition to your lesson plans.

  • Title and Author Identification
  • Illustrator Recognition
  • Setting Exploration
  • Favorite Part Reflection
  • Character Analysis (main and favorite characters)
  • Book Rating
  • Illustration Activity
  • Problem and Solution Identification
  • ....

Each activity supports reading comprehension and connects to the story’s themes, making this set a valuable tool for extending students’ understanding of "Thank you, Omu".

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