Peter's problem is a familiar one in many households, which is why it's a great resource if you're teaching early readers to make connections while reading. Many students relate to Peter's concerns about a new baby sister and feeling left out.

What will Peter do with his old baby chair? Will he learn to share with this new baby sister? By connecting to their own experiences, early readers will be able to use Peter's Chair to practice making logical predictions while reading.

Peter's Chair is ideal for beginning readers who are learning to retell and summarize. This simply storyline makes it easy to identify the key events and characters as well as the problem and solution.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Peter's Chair 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 Peter's Chair.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Peter's Chair. 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 Peter's Chair 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 Peter's Chair. 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 Peter's Chair 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.