Author Beth Ferry uses simple text to share a big message about friendship in Stick and Stone. The easily relatable subject matter will quickly capture your readers' natural curiosity about what it means to be a friend and encourage them to ask meaningful questions as they read.

Use this focused mini lesson with Beth Ferry's Stick and Stone to help students sort through the details of the story and identify the ones that are most important to their understanding of the text.

Most readers already know a lot about friendship. Put this knowledge to use when practicing making inferences with Stick and Stone. Author Beth Ferry and illustrator Tom Lichtenheld included a variety of clues for students to use as they "read between the lines" to understand the story.

What will most likely happen next when Pinecone refuses to stop teasing Stone? Stick will step in and save the day of course! Encourage your readers to increase their understanding and enjoyment of Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry with this step-by-step, making predictions mini lesson.

Students are more confident in their ability to "think about their thinking" when they can focus on a familiar theme. Beth Ferry's simple story about friendship will have readers considering what it means to be a friend, contemplating forgiveness, and deciding whether or not characters can change.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Stick and Stone 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 Stick and Stone.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Stick and Stone. 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 Stick and Stone 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 Stick and Stone. 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 Stick and Stone 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.