Print out this finished example of the Piggie Pie emergent reader. Students are to draw a picture to correspond with their sentence strip with markers and crayons. The students will take their sentence strips, read them, arrange them in the correct sequential order, and glue each strip on the bottom of piece of paper. Give each student a copy of the sentence strips, twelve pieces of plain, white paper and art materials. Print out several sets of these sentence strips. Tell students they are going to make a Piggie Pie emergent reader and illustrate their books. Stop reading after each page and ask them to name the adjectives. Tell the students you are going to read the story again, but this time you want them to listen for adjectives. The book, Piggie Pie is ideal for teaching adjectives since the book contains many examples**.** Before beginning this activity, review what an adjective is. Piggie Pie Emergent Reader Adjective Activity Repeat the exercise having odd children find even pigs and even children find odd pigs. The teacher will check to make sure they have found the correct pigs. Little witches will return to their desks with even or odd pigs. Half of the class will be in search of odd pigs and the other half in search of even pigs. (You could even make paper ones if desired.) The teacher writes an even or odd number on the pig cut-outs and hide them around the classroom. The kids will put witch hats on obtained by the teacher from a costume shop or craft store. The students are going to pretend that they are Gritch the witch in search of pigs to put in their piggie pie. Have each child color and cut-out five pigs. Young students will barely notice they are practicing odd and even numbers while playing this interactive game. The students will find the contraction that matches and place the disguise over the correct pig.

Write a matching contraction on these with a black marker and laminate them. The pigs face will show through the cow, duck, chicken, and farmer’s body (like a mask). The other animals need to have the faces cut out of them because they will be the pigs’ disguises. Write the two words that make up the contraction on the pigs, laminate them and glue to a manila folder.

The teacher will print, color and cut-out 16 pigs, 4 cows, 4 ducks, 4 chickens, and 4 farmers. Help your students learn contractions with this fun contraction disguises file folder game.

What child wouldn’t love a book about a bunch of clever, little pigs that outsmart a mean, old witch in search of pigs to put in her Piggie Pie? After reading this fun book, you can trick your students into practicing odd and even numbers, contractions, adjectives and other skills through the engaging Piggie Pie activities found below.

Piggie Pie! by Margie Palatini