Free sweets/healthy food sorting activities. Perfect for Halloween, even if you can't use Halloween activities (no bats, ghosts or witches included). 2 cut-and-paste worksheets --or laminate them to file folders.
It's one thing to teach concepts like characters, setting, and plot. Most kids get these without too much trouble, but it's another thing to teach your kids to find the theme of a piece of literature. This higher level thinking, much more abstract re