Did you hear?! There’s a new addition to the Creepy family! The three of us were so excited to get our hands on the latest book by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown. We have loved Creepy Carrots and Creepy Pair of Underwear for years, and we officially now love Creepy Crayon too.
Creepy Carrots and Creepy Pair of Underwear have been two of our favorite books for the fall. Moreover, two books that we loved creating read alouds for! So, we couldn’t wait to make a new read aloud for Creepy Crayon!
Are you ready to find out what’s included in your Creepy Crayon Read Aloud?! Keep reading!
Creepy Crayon Summary
Here is a quick overview if you haven’t had a chance to read this cute book yet. Just like the other two spooky books in this series, Creepy Crayon is a blend of humor with a little spook.
In this book, Jasper gets himself into a bit of a pickle with a crayon. In the beginning, Jasper is flunking art. However, when he comes across a perfect purple crayon everything begins to change.
First, the changes are for the best. Anytime Jasper has difficulty with something the crayon is there to help him out. However, it doesn’t take long before Jasper realizes the crayon is ALWAYS around! Moreover, the crayon is doing all of Jasper’s work.
While it seemed like a great friendship, in the beginning, Jasper soon learns that the Creepy Crayon is not the friend he needs.
In addition to the well-written story, the book follows the unique black-and-white art that this series is known for. Only the Creepy Crayon (like the Creepy Carrot and the Creepy Pair of Underwear) is in color! This book is truly a perfect pairing of storytelling through words and pictures to engage young students.
Creepy Crayon Activities
Just like the story follows a similar structure as the other two creepy books, our read aloud follows a similar structure to our Creepy Carrot Read Aloud and Creepy Pair of Underwear Read Aloud.
Here is a quick overview of what types of activities are included in all of our read aloud packets.
- Detailed Lesson Plan with Full Color Examples
- Text Dependent Questions and Answer Keys
- Character, Setting, Problem and Solution Graphic Organizer
- Point of View/ What Are They Thinking? Graphic Organizer
- Feelings Change Graphic Organizer
- Writing pages
- Vocabulary cards and worksheets
- Quiz
- Retelling puppets
- Craftivity template
- Graphic organizers pre-loaded to Easel
While all of our read aloud resources follow this structure, all of the activities are designed to follow the specific content of each book. Let’s take a look at the specific activities we created for Creepy Crayon.
Creepy Crayon Text Dependent Questions & Answer Key
These questions guide students through the story of Jasper and the Creepy Crayon.
Guided Summary Activity for Creepy Crayon
This guided activity uses the structure, character, setting, problem, and solution to help students learn how to create effective summaries.
Whole Group Response to Text Activity
In this activity students put the sequence cards in the correct order as a class and then complete the graphic organizer.
Creepy Crayon Writing Pages
This resource includes writing pages for students. The writing prompt guides students to write about what makes them proud.
Vocabulary Cards and Worksheets for Creepy Crayon
We have provided you with carefully selected words to help your students connect with the text and grow their vocabulary.
Craftivity for Creepy Crayon
Students will love this end-of-unit activity! Using the materials provided, students will make retelling puppets of the Creepy Crayon. This is the perfect way to include a fun activity that still supports rigorous learning.
Creepy Crayon Quiz
In addition to the fun activities like the retelling puppets, there is also a Creepy Crayon quiz. The carefully created questions will help you see exactly what your students learned. Moreover, each individual student’s level of comprehension.
Creepy Carrots Read Aloud
As we mentioned earlier, Creepy Crayon follows a similar format as our read aloud for Creepy Carrot and the read aloud for Creepy Pair of Underwear.
Therefore, once you have taught your students the structure of one read aloud it is easy to use additional read alouds. Moreover, the more frequently you use any of our read aloud activities, the more your students can complete them as independent work.
The benefit of creating independent work is that it adds variety to your lessons, increased student engagement, and creates more time for you to engage with students.
Using three read alouds for a series is even more effective because students are already engaged with the first story. Therefore, they are typically more invested in learning what the other two stories are about. Meaning, they will be more likely to complete work independently. Check out some more of our favorite October Read Alouds.
Creepy Pair of Underwear Read Aloud
If you are ready to jump into a read aloud series, this is the perfect place to begin.
We suggest going in order and starting with Creepy Carrot. Then, the Creepy Pair of Underwear Read Aloud. Finally, ending with the new Creepy Crayon Read Aloud. However, you could go in any order you prefer.
Each read aloud in this Creepy Read Alouds Bundle provides enough lessons for a full week’s worth of learning activities. Therefore, when you buy the bundle you will almost a month of reading lessons ready to go!
Since these read aloud activities are ready-to-teach, we hope it will give you back some extra time in the classroom. With the extra time, you can create a fun end of October spooky activity for your students, or look into some of our other fun fall learning activities!
Check out some of our other October Interactive Read Alouds.
You can also use Creepy pair of underwear read aloud/activities & Creepy carrots read aloud/activities
We'd like to send you a free interactive read-aloud that is easy to use in either a print or digital format!