In Shirin Yim Bridges' Ruby's Wish, readers will follow Ruby through her early life and be able to practice identifying the people and events that help make her dreams come true.

Ruby has a wish that goes against the traditions of her family and she is willing to take chances and work hard to make her wish a reality. This mini lesson, perfectly paired with Ruby's Wish, will encourage students to make text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections.

Will Ruby be able to turn her dream into reality? Readers can't help but make predictions about what they think might happen to this young girl as she reaches for the stars. Use this focused mini lesson with Ruby's Wish to help students identify places in the story to pause and make a prediction about what will happen next.

Encourage readers to gain a deeper understanding of Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges with this synthesizing mini lesson. Thinking about how Ruby's problem is influenced by the people and events in the story will lead to a higher level of comprehension of the text.

In Ruby's Wish, author Shirin Yim Bridges tells the story using description, problem and solution, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. Identifying these text structures will help students become better readers by understanding how the text is organized.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Ruby's Wish by Shirin Yim Bridges as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Ruby's Wish 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 Ruby's Wish.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Ruby's Wish. 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 Ruby's Wish 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 Ruby's Wish. 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 Ruby's Wish 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.