Use Sleep Like a Tiger by Mary Logue to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This Caldecott Honor book captures something every teacher knows well: the child who insists they're not tired, even as their eyes grow heavy.
As a little girl moves through her bedtime routine, her patient parents ask how different animals fall asleep. Tigers stretch out. Bats hang upside down. Snails curl up like cinnamon rolls. With each imagined scene, students visualize, connect, and notice how language shapes mood.
This resource set includes lesson plans for three comprehension strategies: Author's Purpose, Visualizing, and Making Connections. Students will analyze the author's word choices, create mental images from descriptive language, and relate the girl's bedtime resistance to their own experiences.
A word work lesson on long E spelling patterns rounds out the set, with practice drawn directly from the text.
