In this story, Peter rushes outside for an adventure in the snow. Early readers will be able to make text-to-self connections to either their own snow-day experiences or a time when they tried to bring home a memory from an exciting adventure. This lesson also supports text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

Each scene of The Snowy Day places Peter in a new activity on his snowy adventure. Early readers will enjoy making logical predictions about what Peter will do next and how his decisions will play out.

With only one main character and a simple story line, The Snowy Day is an ideal book for supporting beginner readers who need additional practice retelling and summarizing. Students can focus on the most important events to support an effective summary.

The Snowy Day is a smart choice for teaching beginner readers how to visualize story scenes to enhance their comprehension. Students can practice identifying which words in the author's descriptions help them create mental images, which they can then compare against the illustrations.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats as a springboard for instruction focused on hard c sound.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Snowy Day 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 Snowy Day.

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