Use this determining importance lesson plan and set of resources to support readers as they identify important events and details in Dav Pilkey's The Hallo-Wiener.

Dav Pilkey's play on words in The Hallo-Wiener gives students the opportunity to make inferences about word choice. Use this making inferences mini lessons and set of student resources to teach readers how to make inferences using the text and picture clues to deepen comprehension.

With just the right amount of suspense, The Hallo-Wiener makes it easy for students to practice making predictions. This step-by-step mini lesson guides students to make predictions about story events and character behavior.

Being bullied is never easy. Luckily Oscar, the under-dog, comes out on top in this fun Halloween story. Use the text and mini lesson to teach students how to track the ways in which their opinion of the characters change from the beginning of the book to the end.

Dav Pilkey's use of text structures in The Hallo-Wiener provides students with lots of examples of each text structure. Use the text and mini lesson to teach readers how to notice each text structure and enjoy the story of Oscar and his unusual Halloween.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Hallo-Wiener by Dav Pilkey as a springboard for instruction focused on synonyms.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Hallo-Wiener 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 Hallo-Wiener.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Hallo-Wiener. 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 Hallo-Wiener 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 Hallo-Wiener. 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 Hallo-Wiener 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.