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appropriate boulevard deliberately imagination innocent interrupted prowlers screeching suspicious Transylvanian --- Conversation Questions---

(1) Share with me your favorite part of the book. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) What happened next?

(2) Imagine you are a student in the class. Would you think Mrs. Jeepers is a vampire? (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Why do you think that?

(3) Imagine that you are Howie or Melody. Explain how you feel when you see the custodian leave. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Did they have a good idea?

(4) Compare Mrs. Jeepers and the class to one of your teachers and class. (Answer) Any logical answer. (Follow Up) Would you like to go to Bailey School?

(5) Explain “prowlers”. (Answer) People that enter a house and are sneaking around. (Follow Up) What do you think was in the box?

(6) Recall what Mrs. Jeeper says to Eddie at first. (Answer) “That’s quite enough.” (Follow Up) Does Eddie listen to her?

(7) Look for the ways to counteract a vampire’s power. (Answer) Garlic, cross. (Follow Up) Who found that information?

(8) Tell what Mrs. Jeepers wears. SUMMARY (Answer) A green broach and a bat bracelet. (Follow Up) Where did she get the bat bracelet? The 3rd grade at Bailey School gets a new teacher after running off the old one. No one dares make (9) Describe the principal, Mr. Davis. Mrs. Jeepers mad because whenever they do, the strangest (Answer) Dark rimmed glasses, bald, like an egg. things happen. Could she really be a vampire? (Follow Up) Do you think the kids like Mr. Davis?

(10) Describe the house Mrs. Jeepers lives in. (Answer) Cobwebs, blood-red carpet, broken windows, run down. (Follow Up) Describe your house. Activities

1 1. Draw the Clancy House. Label some things that are . inside and outside.

2 2. Write a help-wanted ad for a new third grade teacher for Bailey School. .

3 3. Imagine Eddie’s conversation with Mrs. Jeepers and write a dialogue for it. .

4 4. List the reasons the children began to suspect that Mrs. Jeepers is a vampire. .

Introduction

1. Wear a pair of fangs. Have the children guess what you are. Ask, “How much do you know about vampires?” Say, “Today we are going to met some students who suspect their teacher may be a vampire.”

2. Have a scrap of polka-dotted fabric. Ask, “Do you know anyone who wears polka dots?” Say, “Let’s read about a teacher who wears polka dots to school and find out what the students think.”

3. Drop a book when the child comes in the room. Ask, “How would you feel if you were in class and that happened? How would the teacher feel?” Say, “Today we’ll see how a teacher takes a wild class and gets them to behave.”

Book Title: Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots Author: Debbie Dadey & Thornton Jones Illustrator: John Steven Gurney ISBN: 0-590-43411-X # of Text Pages: 73 AR: 3.8 LEX: 600 Building Oral Vocabulary 1 innocent 17 prowlers 30 suspicious Prediction Questions 34 What could be in the box? 58 What do you think happened to Eddie? 71 Can Eddie get the best of Mrs. Jeepers? This resource is provided by KYREADS—Barren County Board of Education, an AmeriCorps project funded in part by the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service and the Corporation for National and Community Service.