Mouse Paint is a great choice for readers learning to ask questions while reading. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers ask questions about the plot and characters. You can also use the resource set to help readers think about the types of questions that can expand their comprehension of the story.

Use this determining importance lesson plan and set of resources to support readers as they identify important characters and events that impact the mice throughout the story.

Mouse Paint is the perfect anchor text for students learning to make predictions while reading. Colorful drawings and a repetitive story structure help students predict what will happen next, deepening student engagement with this memorable book.

Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help students synthesize character development story in order to understand how characters and their opinions of those characters can change as they read the text.

This well-loved story offers students several opportunities to practice comprehension through basic text structures. The page-by-page mini lesson included in this resource set teaches students about problem and solution, description, sequencing, and cause and effect.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh as a springboard for instruction focused on syllables.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Mouse Paint 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 Mouse Paint.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Mouse Paint. 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 Mouse Paint 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 Mouse Paint. 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 Mouse Paint 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.