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Thanksgiving is just around the corner! These differentiated turkey emergent readers are a perfect addition to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this November. Plus, sneak some writing practice in at the end of each book!

Most people only think about turkeys as being a delicious part of their Thanksgiving meal. We can describe what they look like and how scrumptious they taste, but really don't know much else about them. Well, not anymore! By the end of this post, not only will you know more ~~than you would ever want to know~~ about the life of a turkey, but you'll also have seen an awesome differentiated emergent reader that you can use to teach your students more about them as well.

Did you know that a turkey hen lays 9-13 eggs in her clutch in a shallow hole in the ground that's only about 1/2" deep? These I Am a Turkey emergent readers not only tell all kinds of facts about the life cycle of a turkey, but are differentiated as well. Meet your students right where they're at with their reading abilities.

Turkeys do not see well at night, which is why they fly to trees for sleeping. A mother hen, however, will stay on the ground for 28 days, sitting on her clutch to keep them warm and risking her own life to protect them from nighttime predators. It isn't until a poult (baby turkey) is 4 weeks old that it will be able to fly to safety above ground at night with its mother. Each level of the reader takes students through the basic development of a turkey from inside of an egg, to hatching, to young poult life, to adult life.

At 6 weeks old, a poult will molt it's feathers for the first time. It will molt multiple times. Each time, larger feathers will grow until the poult is an adult.

My favorite part of this informational emergent reader set is that the last page that sneaks in some writing practice! It asks students to write down some of the favorite facts they learned about turkeys.

Get these 'I Am a Turkey' readers HERE. Don't forget to PIN this post so that you can remember these books for future planning!

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Thanks for letting me share these activities with you! I hope your littles love and enjoy them. I also hope they make your teacher life & prep just a tad bit easier!

-Til next time

Bek

With Halloween right around the corner, now is a perfect time for your Preschool, Kindergarten, or First grade kids to be learning about nocturnal animals! If you're looking for fall activities for kids, these Bats, Owls, & Spiders differentiated readers are a perfect additional to the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this fall. Help your students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about bats at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

With fall upon us and Halloween right around the corner, I'd like to show you some differentiated 'I Am a Bat' emergent readers. And then I have a FREE DOWNLOAD you can try out if you haven't already!

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While you really can use these readers at any time of year, I tend to do them around our Halloween and Nocturnal Animals units. I have many animal readers in this series, but I'm only going to highlight the bat readers today!

So this is what the cover looks like. It's the same for all three levels of the reader.

Here's what it looks like full size. Each page of the book comes two-to-a-page so that you can easily print the books using the collate and staple options on your copy machine. Then use a paper cutter to quickly slice between the books and just like magic, they're already assembled for you!

Meet your students right where they're at with three differentiated levels to choose from. Your kiddos can highlight any sight words, chunks, or blends that you are currently working on.

Learn some unique facts about bats that many people don't know!

Learn what they eat and how they sleep.

The last page is one of my favorites. It's included in all of the readers of this series. Students write down a list of the favorite things they learned while reading the book! It's a great way to incorporate writing practice. This picture is from a set of rabbit readers, and I just happened to have it handy to show you. This is how the bat books end as well.

Let me show you two ways you can get this bats reader set.

You can get this differentiated reader by itself here:

I Am a Bat Emergent Readers

Or you can get it in a bundle with other readers:

Nocturnal Animals Emergent Readers

Six readers, all about nocturnal animals, are included in this bundle.

Remember reading that book when you were a kid, about the old lady who swallowed a fly? Well, guess what? She swallows a lot more things now, including bats! My students LOVE when I pull this book out. I made some activities and centers to go along with this book.

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat Activities

Now, let me show you a FREE DOWNLOAD you can get right now that will give you an opportunity to try those differentiated readers out!

This is the I Am an Alligator set.

It's set up exactly like the bat readers, only your students will be learning about alligators instead! Oh my!

Try this series FREE right here:

I Am an Alligator Differentiated Readers

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-Til next time

These FREE non-fiction, differentiated readers will go right along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this spring. Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about alligators at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader.

Bek

These Tortoise and the Hare fable crafts and activities are a perfect literacy match for your fables unit with your Kindergarten or First Grade kids. #fables #tortoiseandthehare #emergentreaders #kindergarten #firstgrade #literacy #elementary #reading #thebarefootteacher

Hello friends! I've got quite a handful of activities to share with you.

Get ready to feel excited about fables with The Story of the Tortoise and the Hare emergent reader! Your littles will LOVE having their very own kid-friendly version of this story to read on their own.

Bek

These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your kids this spring. They're perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop their reading abilities while learning about rabbits. The last page incorporates writing as students recall facts they learned. Try one out for FREE! #easter #easteractivities #nocturnalanimals #freedownload #kindergarten #firstgrade #writing #emergentreaders

With Easter around the corner, I'd like to show you some 'I Am a Rabbit' differentiated emergent readers. And then I'm going to give you a FREE DOWNLOAD to try out!

While you really can use these readers at any time of year, I tend to do them around our Easter and spring units. I have many animal readers in this series, but I'm only going to highlight two of them today!

These non-fiction, differentiated readers will go right along with the other activities, crafts, and ideas you have planned for your class this spring. They are perfect for Easter too! Help your Kindergarten or First Grade students develop confidence in their reading abilities while learning about rabbits at the same time. In addition, the last page of each reader incorporates writing practice as students recall facts that they learned in the reader. Try one out for FREE!

So this is what the cover looks like. It's the same for all three levels of the reader.

Here's what it looks like full size. My daughter turned the title into a cloud in the sky. Each page of the book comes two-to-a-page so that you can easily print the books using the collate and staple options on your copy machine. Then use a paper cutter to quickly slice between the books and voila, they're already assembled for you!

Three different levels allow you to better meet the needs of your students. I'll show you a picture of each of the pages included in this rabbit reader. Your students can highlight any sight words, chunks, or blends that you are currently working on.

Learn about rabbit ears...

The next page has the same text for both the middle and harder leveled pages. Students draw in the rabbit's whiskers on the coloring portion of the page!