8 Ways to Use Piggie Pie! as a Halloween Mentor Text

8 Ways to Use Piggie Pie! as a Halloween Mentor Text

Okay, so Piggie Pie! is not technically a “Halloween book,” but the main character is a witch…so it totally works! Summary Gritch the witch wants to make some Piggie Pie, but she doesn’t have any piggies. Problem! So she looks in the phone book to find some piggies and flies off on her broom to …

6 Ways to Use The Spider and the Fly as a Halloween Mentor Text

I love the fall, but I especially love the weeks just before Halloween when the wind takes the leaves, the days grow short, and there is a special quality to the autumn light. This is when I most enjoy reading one of my all-time favorite picture books, The Spider and the Fly by Tony DiTerlizzi, …