The curious storyline and time period of Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell will naturally lead your readers to ask questions about this true story. This ready-to-use mini lesson will prompt students to use the text and illustrations to ask important questions as they read.

When reading nonfiction, it is important for students to practice determining which pieces of information are the most important to remember. This determining importance mini lesson shows students where to pause and practice thinking about what they have learned while reading Michael O. Tunnell's Mailing May.

Thinking about why author Michael O. Tunnell included various details in Mailing May helps readers develop a deeper understanding of the text. This identifying the author's purpose mini lesson guides students through this important thought process.

When a student is able to retell and summarize a text in their own words, they are demonstrating a deeper understanding of the text. Students will be able to sharpen these skills using the true story presented in Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell and this retelling and summarizing mini lesson.

Author Michael O. Tunnell incorporates both descriptive language and words that may be new for readers in the telling of the true story, Mailing May. This makes this book an excellent choice for a visualization mini lesson because students will have many opportunities to use the text to form mental images of the storyline and new vocabulary.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnell as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Mailing May 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 Mailing May.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Mailing May. 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 Mailing May 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 Mailing May. 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 Mailing May 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.