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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Enemy Pie

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Use Enemy Pie by Derek Munson to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The narrator's summer is set to be perfect until Jeremy Ross moves into the neighborhood. He quickly becomes the one and only person on the narrator's enemy list, but Dad has the perfect solution, Enemy Pie! One small glitch, for the pie to work, the narrator must spend a whole day being nice to his enemy. This entertaining story with a wonderful message makes an excellent anchor text for practicing comprehension strategies such as: identifying the author's purpose, determining importance, making predictions, synthesizing, and understanding text structure.

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Determining Importance with Enemy Pie

Derek Munson's book, Enemy Pie offers many opportunities for readers to practice determining importance. Students can develop this skill as they sort through specific character and event details that affect the narrator as he tries to find a solution to his problem.

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RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3

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2.6E2.9C2.6G2.13C2.6I2.13E2.7A2.13G2.7B2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8A2.6B2.8C

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Enemy Pie

Examining the Dad character's actions and advice as he guides his son towards a solution to his problem will help students uncover the author's purpose for writing Enemy Pie.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.2RL.2.7RL.2.10

TEKS Alignment

2.6E2.10C2.6I2.13C2.7A2.13E2.7B2.13G2.7C2.7D2.7E2.1A2.8C2.1C2.9C2.1D2.10A2.6A2.10B

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Making Predictions with Enemy Pie

Readers will enjoy focusing on making predictions with Derek Munson's Enemy Pie. What ingredients does the pie contain? Will it work? What will happen when your enemy eats it? Many places for students to stop and make predictions with this beautifully illustrated story.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.1RL.2.3RL.2.10

TEKS Alignment

2.6B2.13C2.6C2.13E2.6E2.13G2.6I2.7A2.7B2.7C2.1A2.7D2.1C2.7E2.1D2.7F2.6A2.8C

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Synthesizing with Enemy Pie

Synthesizing is a piece of cake (or pie!) with Enemy Pie by Derek Munson. Readers will follow the change in the narrator's feelings about his enemy as to story progresses and may find that their feelings about the characters change as well.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RL.2.5RL.2.6RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bRL.2.1SL.2.2RL.2.2SL.2.3RL.2.3W.2.8RL.2.4L.2.6

TEKS Alignment

2.1A2.7F2.1C2.8C2.1D2.9C2.6A2.13C2.6B2.13E2.6H2.13G2.6I2.7B2.7C2.7D2.7E

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Understanding Text Structure with Enemy Pie

Derek Munson uses a variety of text structures in Enemy Pie. Readers will identify examples of cause and effect, sequencing, and compare and contrast as they follow the main character throughout the storyline.

Common Core State Standards Alignment

RL.2.5RL.2.7RL.2.10RF.2.3RF.2.4SL.2.1bSL.2.2SL.2.3W.2.8L.2.6RL.2.4

TEKS Alignment

2.1C2.10B2.1D2.10C2.6A2.13C2.6I2.13E2.7B2.13G2.7C2.7D2.7E2.7F2.8C2.1A2.9C

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Comprehension Assessment with Enemy Pie

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Enemy Pie.

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Running Record with Enemy Pie

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Enemy Pie. 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.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Enemy Pie

Read Enemy Pie 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 Enemy Pie. 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.

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Enemy Pie

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Enemy Pie 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.

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Writing with Enemy Pie

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.

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Determining Importance with Enemy Pie (Spanish)

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Enemy Pie (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Enemy Pie (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Enemy Pie (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Enemy Pie (Spanish)

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About the Book

Title: Enemy Pie

Author: Derek Munson

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Themes: Self Awareness, Family, Friendship, Back to School, Decision Making, Bullying, Relationship Skills

ISBN: 9780811827782

Publisher's Summary:

It was the perfect summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street and became neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily, Dad had a surefire way to get rid of enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire day playing with the enemy!

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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Enemy Pie