Students will use the detailed illustrations and clever text to determine why the author wrote a silly story about a bear eating a sandwich.

This lesson plan provides students with an easy way to practice making inferences. Students will access their background knowledge about animals, forests, parks, and sandwiches to infer how the sandwich really disappeared.

With text and picture clues, students will be able to predict what event happens next in order to unveil the truth about the sandwich and the bear!

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich provides students with the opportunity to explore a variety of text structures including cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and problem and solution.

Readers will be curious to know more about what actually happened to the sandwich and who is telling the story. They can practice asking questions about the characters and the problem of the story while determining who is the sandwich-eating culprit!

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how words with vowel team ee are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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.