Students will find many questions they might like to ask the characters in The Good Egg, making it a perfect choice to help them practice this important strategy.

Students are well aware of the behaviors of those around them. They will be able to make connections to the main character, who tries to make everyone behave perfectly. Use this lesson to help them practice making important text to self, text to text, and text to world connections.

Use this lesson plan to help students practice making predictions. The likely outcomes of the events in the story lend themselves to this strategy.

Readers will understand that the Good Egg has a big problem, and they will follow him as he develops a solution to it. Use this synthesizing mini lesson to help readers track the ways a character can change over the course of a text.

Jory John includes a variety of text structures in The Good Egg. Students will be able to identify compare and contrast, problem and solution, description, and other structures as they read.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Good Egg by Jory John as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how r-controlled vowels (-ar,-or,-ore) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Good Egg 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 Good Egg.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Good Egg. 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 Good Egg 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 Good Egg. 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 Good Egg 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.