Use A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This heartwarming story celebrates family, perseverance, and the joy of working toward a shared goal. After a fire destroys their home, a young girl and her family receive help from kind neighbors but still dream of buying a comfortable chair where the hardworking mother can rest. Through patience and teamwork, they save every coin until they can buy the perfect chair—a symbol of love, comfort, and hope.
This resource set helps students strengthen key comprehension skills such as identifying the author's purpose, making inferences, retelling and summarizing, understanding text structure, and visualizing. It also includes a word work lesson on prepositions, vocabulary activities, and two assessments to reinforce learning.
