The Missing Mitten Mystery is a natural choice for readers learning to ask questions while reading. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers ask questions about the plot. Then help readers think about the types of questions that can deepen their comprehension of the story.

Students will easily connect with this book as they follow Annie on her search to find the missing mitten. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to provide readers with a framework to make connections while reading.

Help students make meaningful predictions while reading The Missing Mitten Mystery. With this lesson plan and set of resources, readers will learn how to use clues in both the pictures and the text to predict where Annie's mitten might be.

Steven Kellogg's limited cast of characters and familiar plot lay the perfect foundation for readers who are learning to retell and summarize first grade stories.

Synthesizing while reading doesn't have to be complicated. It's a matter of tracking your thinking across the pages of a text. Help students track their thoughts about the main character in The Missing Mitten Mystery with this synthesizing lesson plan and set of resources.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steven Kellogg as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Missing Mitten Mystery 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 Missing Mitten Mystery.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Missing Mitten Mystery. 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 Missing Mitten Mystery 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 Missing Mitten Mystery. 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 Missing Mitten Mystery 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.