Readers will easily connect to Stick Man's frustration with being taken farther and farther away when all he wants to do is return home to his family. Use this making connections mini lesson with Julia Donaldson's Stick Man to help students use what they know about other texts, themselves, and the world to make meaningful connections.

Using the text and illustrations to make logical inferences is a smart skill to practice with Stick Man by Julia Donaldson. This mini lesson will show readers how to understand new vocabulary, character emotions, and the setting with this strategy.

Readers will enjoy making, and checking, their predictions about what will happen next to poor Stick Man! The detailed illustrations provide great support to readers as they work on making logical predictions.

The use of repetition and rhyme in Julia Donaldson's Stick Man aids students in remembering the sequence of events for the story. Readers can then use the sequence of events to practice retelling and summarizing with this focused mini lesson.

Stick Man goes through a variety of emotions as he gets farther from home and his family. Thinking about these changes is a great springboard for a synthesizing mini lesson using Stick Man by Julia Donaldson.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Stick Man by Julia Donaldson 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 Stick Man 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 Man.

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