The accessible text and attractive illustrations in Will Hubbell's Pumpkin Jack leads readers to identify the story's important details with confidence.

This making connections mini lesson, paired with Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell, focuses on using your students' prior experiences with pumpkins to increase their comprehension of the text.

Extend your students' knowledge of the growing cycle of pumpkins with this Pumpkin Jack mini lesson and set of resources focused on synthesizing. Most students have some experience with pumpkins from seasonal activities, however, they may not be aware of all of the pumpkins changes during its growing cycle.

Author Will Hubbell employs different text structures to explain the life of a pumpkin in Pumpkin Jack. Readers will identify examples of description, sequencing, and cause and effect in this engaging story.

Teach your readers to "see what they read" using the descriptive language in Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell. Readers will be able to imagine standing with Tim as he watches his pumpkin transform throughout the year.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding -ed and -d to verbs is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with past tense verbs.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Pumpkin Jack 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 Pumpkin Jack.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Pumpkin Jack. 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 Pumpkin Jack 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 Pumpkin Jack. 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 Pumpkin Jack 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.