The Great Kapok Tree: An Instructional Guide for Literature is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this classic children's book. By completing fun, challenging activities and lessons, students will uncover the true meaning behind this beautifully illustrated story. The cross-curricular lessons and activities were written to support the text, and incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice Level 2
Grade: 2
Price: $29.99
Prepare grade 2 students for standardized tests with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises! Developed by reading expert Dr. Edward Fry this book focuses on increasing students' comprehension, word study, and language mechanics skills.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice Level 3
Grade: 3
Price: $29.99
Prepare grade 3 students for standardized tests with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises! Developed by reading expert Dr. Edward Fry this book focuses on increasing students' comprehension, word study, and language mechanics skills.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice Level 4
Grade: 4
Price: $29.99
Prepare grade 4 students for standardized tests with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises! Developed by reading expert Dr. Edward Fry this book focuses on increasing students' comprehension, word study, and language mechanics skills.
Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice Level 6
Grade: 6
Price: $29.99
Prepare grade 6 students for standardized tests with motivating informational text and comprehension exercises! Developed by reading expert Dr. Edward Fry this book focuses on increasing students' comprehension, word study, and language mechanics skills.
Assessing Comprehension Thinking Strategies
Grade: 1-8
Price: $29.99
This book offers a unique way of assessing how students use thinking strategies to comprehend text and features four reading passages for each grade level (1-8) that offer high-interest fiction and nonfiction text.
Building Vocabulary with Greek and Latin Roots: A Professional Guide to Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Development
Grade: K-12
Price: $31.99
This teacher-friendly, 2nd edition resource provides the latest research on how to teach Greek and Latin roots. It includes strategies for improving comprehension, planning instructional routines, and building a word-rich learning environment.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Kindergarten
Grade: K
Price: $22.99
Help kindergarten students improve their spelling skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on phonetic patterns, students will explore letters and sounds to build words.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for First Grade
Grade: 1
Price: $22.99
Help first grade students improve their spelling skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on 10 words each week, students will learn spelling rules, patterns, and vocabulary.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Second Grade
Grade: 2
Price: $22.99
Help second grade students improve their spelling skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on 10 words each week, students will learn spelling rules, patterns, and vocabulary.
180 Days of Spelling and Word Study for Third Grade
Grade: 3
Price: $22.99
Help third grade students improve their spelling skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on 15 words each week, students will learn spelling rules, patterns, and vocabulary.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: An Instructional Guide for Literature
Grade: K-3
Price: $9.99
Take a journey with a very tiny, very hungry caterpillar as he transforms into a beautiful butterfly. Readers will become familiar with this well-known story and learn about a tiny life cycle through this instructional guide for literature.
180 Days of Writing for Second Grade
Grade: 2
Price: $22.99
Help second grade students improve their writing skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Guides students through the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing with fun daily activities.
The Great Kapok Tree Vocabulary Activities
Grade: 2-3
Price: $3.49
These vocabulary activities for The Great Kapok Tree incorporate key skills for college and career readiness. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.
The Great Kapok Tree Leveled Comprehension Questions
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.29
These leveled discussion questions about The Great Kapok Tree require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.
The Great Kapok Tree Reader Response Writing Prompts
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.29
Students respond to The Great Kapok Tree through writing. Various writing prompts, which require students to make connections, are provided. Narrative, opinion, and informative/explanatory prompts are included along with themed writing paper.
The Great Kapok Tree Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.49
Students analyze The Great Kapok Tree using key skills for college and career readiness. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.
The Great Kapok Tree Making Cross-Curricular Connections
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.29
These cross-curricular activities for The Great Kapok Tree incorporate key skills for college and career readiness. The activities integrate literature with social studies, science, math, and more. Included activity pages engage and challenge students.
The Great Kapok Tree Language Learning Activities
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.49
These activities for The Great Kapok Tree practice key language convention skills. The activities integrate literature with learning about grammar, word choice, and sentence structure. Learning can be fun when it's connected to literature.
The Great Kapok Tree Studying the Story Elements
Grade: 2-3
Price: $3.29
Students will enjoy studying the story elements of The Great Kapok Tree through these engaging activities, students create products to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the book.
The Great Kapok Tree Post-Reading Activities
Grade: 2-3
Price: $2.49
These post-reading activities for The Great Kapok Tree allow students to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the book. They have opportunities to write, draw, and perform based on what they've learned.
The Great Kapok Tree Comprehension Assessment
Grade: 2-3
Price: $1.49
These assessment questions for The Great Kapok Tree are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.
