Use If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This engaging resource set for If I Built a School by Chris Van Dusen invites students to explore a world built on creativity, imagination, and big dreams. Through a variety of comprehension activities, students will connect with Jack's wild ideas for the perfect school while practicing foundational reading skills.
With targeted strategy work in making connections, making inferences, and synthesizing, this bundle supports deeper understanding of both text and illustrations. Students will also enjoy a word work activity focused on long vowel rhymes—mirroring the rhythmic, rhyming structure of the story—and a creative opinion writing extension that asks students to dream up their own vision for a better school.