The Paper Bag Princess is a smart choice for early readers who are still learning to make connections, especially text-to-text connections. Because this is an updated fairy tale, readers will be able to draw connections between this book and familiar fairy tale stories.

The action in this story makes it an excellent resource for supporting readers who are working to identify and retell events to improve reading comprehension. There are only three characters in this story, it follows a conventional sequence, and the conflict and resolution are clear to new readers.

The Paper Bag Princess is based on a classic fairy tale text structure, but offers readers a surprise ending. Therefore, in addition to working through description and cause/effect text structures, readers will also practice comparing and contrasting this updated fairy tale with more familiar fairy tales to further define their understanding of the genre.

With high action and engaging descriptive language, this book pairs perfectly with a lesson on visualizing. The illustrations in this book are also based closely on the text, so readers can compare their own mental images to the illustrations to learn how to self-monitor their use of this strategy.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how bossy E (CVCe) is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Paper Bag Princes 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 Paper Bag Princess.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Paper Bag Princess. 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 Paper Bag Princess 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 Paper Bag Princess. 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 Paper Bag Princess 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.