Use Corduroy by Don Freeman to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Corduroy's heartwarming story about finding a friend of his own is a perfect pick for comprehension lessons in making connections and predictions. Students connect to prior knowledge to identify where in the department store Corduroy might find a new trouser button.
Young students will be able to identify with the emotional experiences of both Corduroy and Lisa in this story. This makes it an ideal lesson for learning how to make text-to-self connections.
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Where will Corduroy find a new button? Watch your students learn to make predictions as they tap into prior knowledge and identify where in the department store Corduroy might find a new trouser button.
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The events, characters, problem and solution in Corduroy's heartwarming story are clear and memorable, making this lesson plan a perfect pick for readers who are learning to retell and summarize basic stories.
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This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Corduroy by Don Freeman as a springboard for instruction focused on diphthongs.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how diphthongs with-ighare used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with -igh diphthongs.
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This set of vocabulary development resources for Corduroy 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.
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Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Corduroy.
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Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Corduroy. 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.
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Read Corduroy 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 Corduroy. 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.
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Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Corduroy 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.
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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.
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Have you ever dreamed of being locked in a department store at night? The endearing story of Corduroy paints a picture of the adventures that might unfold (for a teddy bear at least) in such a situation. When all the shoppers have gone home for the night, Corduroy climbs down from the shelf to look for his missing button. It's a brave new world! He accidentally gets on an elevator that he thinks must be a mountain and sees the furniture section that he thinks must be a palace. He tries to pull a button off the mattress, but he ends up falling off the bed and knocking over a lamp. The night watchman hears the crash, finds Corduroy, and puts him back on the shelf downstairs. The next morning, he finds that it's his lucky day! A little girl buys him with money she saved in her piggy bank and takes him home to her room. Corduroy decides that this must be home and that Lisa must be his friend. Youngsters will never get tired of this toy-comes-alive tale with a happy ending, so you may also want to seek out Dan Freeman's next creation, A Pocket for Corduroy . (Ages 3 to 8.).
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