Students will use the fun illustrations and predictable text to determine why the author wrote about the adventure of a singing cat and his favorite shoes.

This fun story is great for young readers to make text-to-text and text-to-self connections. They'll easily see the connections they can make between their own experience with a bad day and Pete's experience.

Given the repetition of the story and the excellent illustrations, students will be able to predict what happens to the cat and how he reacts to each scenario.

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes has an engaging story with sequential events that allows students to work on their retelling skills.

This mini lesson draws the readers attention to the structure of problem and solution, cause and effect, and description throughout many parts of the text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin as a springboard for instruction focused on the CVCe word pattern.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes 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 Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. 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.

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.

Read Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes 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 Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes. 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 Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes 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.