The Lotus Seed is an ideal anchor text for a mini-lesson focused on determining importance. This lesson plan and set of resources guides readers to notice key details in the story in order to better understand important events, character motivation, and overall theme.

The Lotus Seed will support more sophisticated readers who are practicing making connections to deepen their understanding of a story. Readers will need to focus on making text-to-text and text-to-world connections in order to fully understand the setting, the chain of events and the characters' feelings in this book.

With The Lotus Seed, you can differentiate your lesson for readers who need additional support retelling and those who need an extra challenge. Early readers will be able to identify a clear cast of characters and events in their summary, and more advanced readers will have the added challenge of recognizing multiple narrator perspectives.

Using detailed language and artistic illustrations, The Lotus Seed is the perfect text for a lesson on visualizing unfamiliar settings and human emotions.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Lotus Seed 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 Lotus Seed.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Lotus Seed. 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 Lotus Seed 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 Lotus Seed. 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 Lotus Seed 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.