Combining the vibrant illustrations with their own experiences at a dental office, intermediate-level students will be able to identify the words and descriptions used by the author to help them construct images in their minds.

Will Dr. and Mrs. De Soto deviate from their business plan and risk their personal safety to treat a fox with a painful toothache? Are the fox's intentions genuine? As the anticipation builds in this story, your students will have countless opportunities to practice making predictions.

With three well-defined main characters and a clear beginning, middle and end, this lesson plan provides effective support to students who need practice retelling and summarizing

Several different text structures can be found in Doctor De Soto, including problem and solution, sequence and cause/effect. Choose this lesson for comprehensive practice in understanding how different text structures are used to tell a story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Doctor De Soto by William Steig as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how Latin suffixes are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with Latin suffixes.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Doctor De Soto highlights the words that are most important for students to know and understand while reading the book.  Through engaging in fun word games, matching words to definitions and pictures, and practicing how to categorize words, students will develop the vocabulary necessary to comprehend this story and many others.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Doctor De Soto.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Doctor De Soto. Track meaning, structure, and visual accuracy using the first 100 words of the text to determine whether or not this book is a good fit for the readers in your classroom.

Read Doctor De Soto then have some fun matching cause and effect sentences from the book. By using these cause and effect cards, students will demonstrate both their comprehension of the text and their understanding of cause and effect relationships in hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Doctor De Soto. Each cause card is marked with a square and each effect card is marked with a circle, making it easy to support students who struggle with matching cause and effect relationships.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Doctor De Soto includes several examples of cause and effect relationships, making it easy to use as a springboard for modeling or independent practice.

This simple resource includes four sentence stems. Each sentence stem presents an effect. Students will use what they know about the book to fill in the cause of the effect.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.