Cozy up to this award-winning classic and introduce young readers to the story of a boy who loses his mitten, much to the delight of some woodland animals who take shelter inside. The Mitten: An Instructional Guide for Literature is filled with appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. This classroom resource is the perfect tool to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Teachers are also encouraged to work with multiple versions of this story and compare and contrast them with students. A special section was added specifically for this task. This guide is the perfect way to help early readers analyze this beautifully illustrated story while adding rigor to their explorations of literature.