Readers become stronger when they can identify why the author included certain details in the story and the reason that the author wrote the book. Using this mini lesson, paired with Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold, students will gain confidence in their ability to identify the author's purpose.

Practice "reading between the lines" with Tedd Arnold's Hi! Fly Guy. Students can combine what they already know about pets with the detailed illustrations and straight-forward text to make inferences about what is happening in the story.

A fly may be an unusual pet, but that doesn't stop Buzz from thinking Fly Guy is awesome! Teach your students to make logical predictions about what might happen to Buzz and Fly Guy at The Amazing Pet Show using this focused mini lesson and Tedd Arnold's humorous text.

Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold is an ideal anchor text to pair with a retelling and summarizing mini lesson. Readers will effortlessly connect with Buzz's feelings towards his new pet and his desire to enter The Amazing Pet Show, making it easy to remember the important events, characters, and details of the story.

Author Tedd Arnold included examples of description, problem and solution, and cause and effect in his book, Hi! Fly Guy. This understanding text structure mini lesson will show students where to pause and notice how the story is organized to improve their understanding of the text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Hi! Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how the long /e/ and long /i/ rule for words ending in y is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with final phonemes.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Hi! Fly Guy 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 Hi! Fly Guy.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Hi! Fly Guy. 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 Hi! Fly Guy 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 Hi! Fly Guy. 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 Hi! Fly Guy 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.