The new, unique topic of "owling" introduced in Owl Moon is an excellent way to encourage students to ask questions while reading. As they work through this text, they'll enhance their understanding by asking about the activities, locations, settings and characters in this story.

Owl Moon is an ideal book for supporting readers who need additional practice making inferences. For many students, this will be the first time they learn about "owling," so they will need to use the illustrations to infer further information about the setting and the characters.

Owl Moon is a smart choice for a lesson on identifying and understanding different text structures. As students read through this text, they will stop to think about spots in the story where the author uses comparing and contrasting, sequence, description, and cause and effect.

The author of Owl Moon uses gentle, poetic language to describe the wintery outdoor setting and the feelings of the book's narrator. This serene story will allow readers to focus on the descriptions and their own mental images of what it might be like to go owling themselves.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Owl Moon by Jane Yolen as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Owl Moon 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 Owl Moon.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Owl Moon. 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 Owl Moon 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 Owl Moon. 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 Owl Moon 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.