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Diary of a Spider Activities and Lesson Plans for 2024

Elementary teachers looking for lesson plans and activities for Diary of a Spider will find this post helpful. It includes resource recommendations, free teaching ideas, and information about the book. You’ll have everything you need to deliver engaging interactive read aloud lessons based on this story.

With themes of friendship and inclusion, this Diary of a Spider picture book by Doreen Cronin is a favorite in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms. It will be a big hit in your classroom too! Learn more about this book below!

Engage Your Students with Diary of a Spider Lesson Plans & Activities in 3 Easy Steps:

  1. Read a summary of Diary of a Spider. You can find it in the section below.
  2. Check out the teaching ideas for reading comprehension strategies, grammar topics and social emotional learning skills that can be taught using this children’s book.
  3. Download the book companion to make lesson planning simple with Diary of a Spider reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, teaching ideas & no-prep extension activities.

DIARY OF A SPIDER SUMMARY

The book, Diary of a Spider, follows the life of Spider over the course of a few months. Spider does many things that children do. He spends time with his parents, grandparents, and siblings. He also goes to school, learns new things, and spends time with his friends.

Spider goes to sleepovers, the park, and learns many things from his Grampa. Spider has a good friend named Fly and stands up for her no matter what. At the end of the story, Spider writes that he wishes people wouldn’t judge spiders before they get to know them.

DIARY OF A SPIDER LESSON PLAN IDEAS

Each of our 400+ Starts With a Story book companions come with a teacher’s guide to make lesson planning quick and easy, printable worksheets and digital resources that cover ALL of the standards-based reading comprehension skills.

When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for Diary of a Spider, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.

We found this book was especially good at teaching the topics listed below.

READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

The text-based Diary of a Spider reading comprehension questions focus on:

  • comparing and contrasting
  • making connections
  • sequencing

LITERATURE-BASED SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING LESSONS

We found this story to be a great SEL picture book to promote:

  • friendship
  • inclusion

GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY & WORD STUDY

  • nouns
  • plural nouns

DIARY OF A SPIDER ACTIVITIES

You’ll receive all of the following resources aligned to the story:

  • comprehension questions
  • 30 writing prompts with themed paper
  • vocabulary activities
  • word study print & go activities
  • ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
  • social emotional learning discussion topics
  • graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
Diary of a Spider book companion
Diary of a Spider

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BOOK INFO FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS

What are the reading levels for Diary of a Spider?

  • Lexile® Measure: AD510L
  • Guided Reading Level: N
  • DRA Level: 24
  • Accelerated Reader Level (ARC): 2.7

Who is the author? Who is the illustrator?

The book was written by Doreen Cronin. It was illustrated by Harry Bliss.

What genre is Diary of a Spider?

It is a fiction book. You may want to check out our genre activities or read our blog post, How to Teach Genre to Elementary Students.

How many pages are in the book?

The story is 40 pages long.

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