![]() ![]() Students love to share what a character might be thinking and it’s a great assessment of their understanding. You could also share traits for each character and have them identify them as Jasper or the carrots For extra scaffolding, you could provide students with the traits and students sort them by inside and outside. But it’s a little harder for them to understand that he is a little greedy and a great problem solver. Students can easily identify Jasper as white with big, skinny ears. I love using Jasper Rabbit and the carrots to discuss appearance vs. ![]() Here are a few of the activities I created to pair alongside the book. I believe Creepy Carrots helps teachers teach deep comprehension through fun illustrations and a silly story. I’ve updated this resource several times because I truly believe in it. I was so incredibly proud and grateful he took the time to respond and I wanted to create a resource he was proud of. Within a few days, though, he responded and said he would love for me to make a resource to go along with it. So I reached out to Aaron Reynolds…not expecting any response. I have shared it with every group since then (usually multiple times through the year)! I wanted to share this book with more than my own students…I wanted teachers everywhere to know what a fun text it was. The librarian shared this book with my class and I was hooked! If you don’t have your own copy, you can find it here using my affiliate link. We celebrated Halloween by dressing as our favorite characters and having guest readers come in all day. ![]() I first heard about this book during my first year of teaching. I love that it has a hint of “spooky” but it all turns out okay! Have you read Creepy Carrots? It’s one of my favorite picture books ever, but I enjoy it even more during Halloween. ![]()
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