22 Room on the Broom Activities, Crafts & Centers

Room on the Broom is the perfect read aloud to help celebrate the changing season and Halloween, without the actual mention of Halloween! This story lends itself well to sequencing the events in the story, identifying character traits, determining cause and effect and recognizing rhyming words. So, make room for these Room on the Broom activities and crafts in your October reading plans!

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Room on the Broom Activities for Comprehension

There are a variety of different Room on the Broom activities that will help deepen comprehension of the story.

First, sequencing the events in a story is an important skill for our little learners to develop. For this skill, I like to have my students create an interactive broomstick retelling craft.

While completing the craft, they also practice making simple cuts… curves, straight lines and zig zags.

Once the craft is complete, the students can lift the flaps as they retell the story.

Another way we sequence the story is by mixing and fixing pocket chart sentences. As they are putting these sentences together, they will need to make sure to sequence the events in the correct order.

These same sentences can be found in our emergent reader. We also use these sentences to practice old and new sight words, as we are reading.

These next couple Room on the Broom activities will get your students thinking!

After reading the story on the second day (the first day is just for enjoyment), we discuss cause and effect and create this anchor chart.

We also create an anchor chart to display the drastic difference in character traits between the witch and the dragon.

For older students, I would dive a little deeper into both physical and personality traits.

Of course, we build our oral language skills and vocabulary as we read the text.

Room on the Broom Activities for Literacy

Here’s a peek at the Room on the Broom activities we use during literacy centers.

At one station, we practice rhyming by matching pictures that rhyme. You could also use these cards to play the game Memory.

We also stretch out CVC words. Some students work on beginning or ending sounds, while others segment the entire word.

During our whole group reading block, we identify beginning sounds. For this activity, I give one card to each student. Then, they will need to find their matching partner.