Use Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Dive into this clever trickster tale where Hare's quick thinking and Bear's laziness make for a fun and memorable story. This resource set helps students practice essential comprehension strategies: Making Predictions, Identifying Author's Purpose, and Determining Importance. Each activity guides readers to think critically about the characters, plot, and lessons in this folktale. In addition, students will explore a word work activity that strengthens their understanding of regular and irregular past tense action verbs. To extend learning, a creative writing activity invites students to write an advice column from the perspective of Bear or Hare. Together, these resources build comprehension, grammar, and writing skills while keeping students engaged in a story they'll love.
