When readers tackle nonfiction text, the amount of detailed information can sometimes be overwhelming. Encourage students to practice attending to the most important details with this ready-to-use determining importance mini lesson to pair with Jen Bryant's Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille.

One way for readers to better comprehend the information Jen Bryant presents in Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille is for them to connect to the text. Identifying similarities between the story and their own life, other texts they have read, and the world allows students to think deeply about the details of the story.

Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant provides an ideal springboard for practice with making predictions. As the students understand Louis' determination, they will be able to make logical predictions about what will happen when Louis encounters roadblocks on his way to learning to read.

As students read Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille, they will realize the great amount of adversity that Louis faced on his quest to learn to read. This synthesizing mini lesson will guide students in discovering the ways that the events of Louis' life effected him.

Author Jen Bryant incorporated a variety of text structures into Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. Paying attention to cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and description will make your students stronger readers.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. 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 Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille 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.