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Substitute Creacher Book Activities

October 3, 2016

It’s October and Halloween is probably on the minds of most of your students. Your students are starting to get comfortable and their true personalities are emerging. Combine these two and it’s time to grab your copy of Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall and share it with your students! Here are some of my favorite activities to use with this story.
It's October and Halloween is probably on the minds of most of your students. Your students are starting to get comfortable and their true personalities are emerging. Combine these two and it's time to grab your copy of Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall and share it with your students! Here are some of my favorite activities to use with this story.
If you aren’t familiar with this story, here’s the blurb:
The trouble making students of Ms. Jenkins’ class arrive at school one day to discover a substitute has come to put a stop to their monkey business! He regales them with mind-boggling stories about his former students who didn’t follow the rules: Keith the glue-eater, Zach the daydreamer, and Hank the prankster, to name a few. But even this multi-tentacled, yellow-spotted, one-eyed monster’s cautionary tales about the consequences of mischief-making can’t seem to change the students’ wicked ways until he reveals the spookiest and most surprising story of all: his own.

Substitute Creacher Comprehension and Vocabulary

I always like to start by giving my students a preview of our vocabulary words and discuss predictions my students have for the text.
I have included 12 vocabulary cards to be used with the story Substitute Creacher. These can be put on display in a pocket chart to make them easily accessible to students.
After reading, we revisit the vocabulary words and discuss their meaning. We also review the story elements together and I like to check their listening comprehension by asking questions.
During our second reading, our main focus is on the characters in the story. Mr. Creacher shares tales about the problems his former students had in class. We use these student problems to complete a cause and effect chart together as a class.
While reading Substitute Creacher, you can create a classroom chart to work on cause and effect.

Substitute Creacher Wanted Posters

To extend this study of characters, I have my students create WANTED posters. As a group we discuss common behaviors and problems at school (without names, of course). Eventually, students identify these fictional characters with a name, age, and reason the student is wanted.
After reading Substitute Creacher, your class can discuss the behaviors of the students mentioned in the story. Then students can create wanted posters for these behaviors.

Substitute Creacher Directed Drawing and Writing Prompts

I also like to give my students a chance to draw Mr. Creacher in their response journals:
After reading Substitute Creacher, students can complete a directed drawing activity.
Then I let them choose one of four writing prompts to complete in their response journals:
There are comprehension questions and writing prompts included that can be used for classroom discussion or for students to complete in their reading response journals after reading Substitute Creacher.
You can find all of these resources and more here:
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Happy Reading!
It's October and Halloween is probably on the minds of most of your students. Your students are starting to get comfortable and their true personalities are emerging. Combine these two and it's time to grab your copy of Substitute Creacher by Chris Gall and share it with your students! Here are some of my favorite activities to use with this story.
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