Learning to ask questions while reading is an important skill for readers to master. Use this minilesson with A Bad Case of Stripes to help readers clarify their understanding of the text and ask questions that will deepen comprehension.

Knowing how to connect with a text to improve comprehension is a key skill for readers to develop. Use this lesson plan to show students how to draw meaningful connections even with a story as fantastic as Camilla Cream's.

The bizarre story of Camilla's case of the stripes provides the perfect framework for readers to practice making logical predictions. Use this lesson plan and set of teaching resources to help students think about what might logically happen in a story as unusual as this one.

With its linear plot and surprising series of events, A Bad Case of Stripes is the perfect anchor text for a minilesson focused on retelling and summarizing.  Use this lesson plan and set of student resources to support readers as they learn to retell the key details of the story.

David Shannon's vibrant description and use of imagery make it easy for readers to visualize while reading. Use the page-specific questions included in this minilesson to prompt students to create mental images while reading A Bad Case of Stripes.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adjectives are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with adjectives. 

This set of vocabulary development resources for A Bad Case of Stripes 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.

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of A Bad Case of Stripes.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with A Bad Case of Stripes. 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.

In A Bad Case of Stripes, Camilla goes through a series of physical transformations. Each transformation is caused when someone in the story describes a pattern or a color. This worksheet provides students with the opportunity to practice matching the cause of Camilla's transformation to its effect.

Read A Bad Case of Stripes 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 A Bad Case of Stripes. 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.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of A Bad Case of Stripes 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.