Children love to ask questions and they will be eager to find out why Groundhog doesn't want to come outside for his big day! This mini lesson and set of resources will support students as they ask questions and use the text to find answers that support their understanding of the story.

Use this lesson plan to guide students in learning the difference between what details are important to understanding the story and what details are interesting but aren't necessarily going to help grasp the main idea.

Students will use their personal experiences and knowledge to create predictions as they read the story. As students become better with their connections, they will be able to create deeper and more meaningful predictions, making them a more successful reader.

Grumpy Groundhog is excellent for teaching children how to synthesize. Students will clearly understand the changes that groundhog undergoes throughout the story which will deepen their comprehension skill set.

Understanding the text structure of a story leads children to make better predictions and will allow them to stretch their thinking to the deeper meaning of a story. Grumpy Groundhog lends itself to a simple structure to aid in becoming more familiar with this skill.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Grumpy Groundhog by Maureen Wright as a springboard for instruction focused on hard and soft g sounds.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Grumpy Groundhog 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 Grumpy Groundhog.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Grumpy Groundhog. 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 Grumpy Groundhog 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 Grumpy Groundhog. 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 Grumpy Groundhog 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.