This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use You Wouldn't Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty by John Malam as a springboard for instruction focused on prefixes and suffixes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for You Wouldn't Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty 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 Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with You Wouldn't Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty. 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.