Show your students how to be "reading detectives" with this making inferences mini lesson to pair with The Mitten by Jan Brett. Students will use the clues in both the text and illustrations and their prior knowledge to make inferences about the feelings of the characters in the story.

Using The Mitten by Jan Brett, students will be able to combine what they already know with what they think might happen next to make logical predictions. The text's illustrations, sequential events, and basic repetition all support students as they practice making predictions.

Jan Brett's use of time order words, sequential order, and repetition makes The Mitten a perfect anchor text for a mini lesson focused on retelling and summarizing. When students stop and think about the order of events while reading, it helps them to better understand the text.

Focus on the text structures of description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and sequencing to help readers understand the characters and events in the story. Pair this resource set with Jan Brett's, The Mitten, to offer students the opportunity to practice comprehension through understanding basic text structure.

Teach your students to use the descriptive language that author Jan Brett incorporated in The Mitten to help them visualize what is happening in the text. The detailed illustrations provide a supportive resource for students to use to check their thinking.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Mitten by Jan Brett as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Mitten 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 Mitten.

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