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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for A Sick Day for Amos McGee

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Use A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Amos McGee is a busy zookeeper who visits each of his animal friends - on time, every day. One day, Amos McGee wakes up sick and stays home in bed. His animal friends are worried about him so they take the city bus to visit Amos. Philip C. Stead's pacing and Erin E. Stead's quiet illustrations make this timeless read aloud the perfect choice for minilessons focused on comprehension strategies including how to ask meaningful questions, make predictions, and synthesize. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on r-controlled vowels along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.
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Asking Questions with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Students will be full of questions about Amos, his animal friends at the zoo, and how the animals are able to ride the bus to Amos's house. Use this lesson plan and set of teaching resources to guide their curiosity towards asking important questions that will help them become better readers.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Determining Importance with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Determining what is most important in a story is a strategy every good reader should practice. Students will have fun stopping on the pages indicated in this minilesson to find the parts that matter most.  The included practice pages will provide students with the opportunity to write about the details they think are most important to remember about the friendship between Amos and the zoo animals.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Predictions with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

A Sick Day for Amos McGee has everything an anchor text for a minilesson focused on predicting should have - a repetitive storyline, detailed illustrations, and a story about a character with a predictable routine. Pair this set of teaching resources with the text to provide students with opportunities to use both the written words and pictures to make informed and smart predictions.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.3,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7B,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.7C,2.1A,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6C,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Synthesizing with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Enhance your students' understanding of this story by focusing their attention on their thoughts about Amos and his actions throughout the story. The text-dependent questions included in this set of teaching resources will guide students to stop and synthesize ("think about their thinking" as a reader).
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

This focused minilesson draws the reader's attention to the variety of text structures used in A Sick Day for Amos McGee. Examples of rich descriptions, cause and effect, problem and solution, and sequencing can be identified and used to better understand this tale of true friendship.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Vowels with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

This set of vocabulary development resources for A Sick Day for Amos McGee 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.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of A Sick Day for Amos McGee.
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Running Record with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with A Sick Day for Amos McGee. 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.
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Cause and Effect Matching with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Read A Sick Day for Amos McGee 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 Sick Day for Amos McGee. 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.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of A Sick Day for Amos McGee 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.
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True or False with A Sick Day for Amos McGee

In the book A Sick Day for Amos McGee, Amos gets sick and decides to stay home instead of going to the zoo, where he works as a zookeeper. This worksheet asks students to recall details from both the text and the illustrations in order to decide if the events listed on the balloons actually happened in the story. If the events on the balloons are true, students will color the balloons. If they are false, the balloons will not be colored.
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Asking Questions with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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True or False with A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Spanish)

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Title: A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Author: Philip C. Stead
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Friendship, Relationship Skills, Award Winners
ISBN: 9781250171108
Publisher's Summary:
THE BEST SICK DAY EVER and the animals in the zoo feature in this striking picture book debut. Friends come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. In Amos McGee's case, all sorts of species, too! Every day he spends a little bit of time with each of his friends at the zoo, running races with the tortoise, keeping the shy penguin company, and even reading bedtime stories to the owl. But when Amos is too sick to make it to the zoo, his animal friends decide it's time they returned the favor. A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead and Erin E. Stead is a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. This title has Common Core connections.
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