It's fall! That means it's harvest time, teachers, ... which means you can turn your attention to scarecrows and all the fun they bring to your classroom.
When I pull out my scarecrow unit, I love to focus on compound words. After all, SCARECROW is a compound word and it's one of the best ones to explain how compound words work.
Once I've introduced compound words, I immerse my students in them. For example, I create a farm scene on a bulletin board. It's amazing how many compound words you can reap on a farm! Then, as the kiddos identify compound word pictures on the board, we label them.
How many more compounds can you find in this picture?
Once we have acquired a bank of compound words, each student chooses one to illustrate for a barn craftivity.
A display of these barns in the hallway is sure to cause a traffic jam.
We routinely have a shared reading of a poem which later is placed in our poetry center. Each child receives a copy to place in his/her poetry anthology. The following scarecrow poem affords us the opportunity to find and highlight compound words in text:
We routinely have a shared reading of a poem which later is placed in our poetry center. Each child receives a copy to place in his/her poetry anthology. The following scarecrow poem affords us the opportunity to find and highlight compound words in text:
Another compound word activity could be used as a center printable, an anchor activity, or something for fast finishers. It's a word find composed of compound words. It's a Google doc so you can grab a copy if you like.
All of these activities and many more are available in my thematic unit, cleverly named "Scarecrows."
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