Last week, we did a super fun literacy activity. First, we read the book, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll. I love this book! After we read it, we made a Venn diagram. This book is great for compare/contrast, so it really lends itself well to a Venn diagram. We have really been focusing a lot on vocabulary at our school this year, and I was amazed at how many of our vocabulary words we used just in this one activity (infer, evaluate, analyze, character, plot, and summarize--just to name a few!)
In this book, there are two characters, Clayton and Desmond. One is a house mouse and one is a field mouse. They both "fall in love" with the same pumpkin, but because one cares for it by day, and one cares for it by night, it takes a while for them to discover what's been going on. My students really did well at comparing and contrasting the characters and events in this story.
Below are a couple of pictures of the completed Venn diagram.
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