The author/illustrator uses pictures that show more about the characters and events than is expressed in the text. This will prompt students to ask questions about the story and give them a chance to practice this important comprehension strategy.

Making inferences is an important comprehension skill. While reading Grandfather's Journey, students will receive clues that will help them to "read between the lines."

Allen Say tells the story of Grandfather's Journey in a linear sequence. Students will be able to remember what happened first, next, etc. as well as the settings in which the events took place, practicing the important skill of retelling and summarizing.

Allen Say uses various types of text, including: sequencing, description, problem and solution, and cause and effect in his story. With this mini lesson, students can practice understanding text structure, while reading a beautiful story.

Allen Say's descriptive text and detailed illustrations will help students who need practice visualizing while they read. This mini lesson will help them to practice checking their comprehension of the plot and settings as they go along.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say as a springboard for instruction focused on compound words.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Grandfather's Journey 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 Grandfather's Journey.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Grandfather's Journey. 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 Grandfather's Journey 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 Grandfather's Journey. 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 Grandfather's Journey 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.