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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Amelia Bedelia

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Use Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The hilarious story of Amelia Bedelia, the lovable maid who is easily confused, has entertained readers for decades. Share this classic story with your students and use it as a springboard for instruction focused on the importance of asking questions, making connections, making predictions, retelling and summarizing, and visualizing to deepen comprehension while reading. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on exploring words with double consonants along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.
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Asking Questions with Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia is a fabulous anchor text for a minilesson focused on asking questions. This set of teaching resources includes page-specific prompts designed to help readers explore the reason why Amelia behaves the way she does and ask questions about the consequences of her actions.
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
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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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Making Connections with Amelia Bedelia

Use this set of teaching resources to turn a silly read-aloud into a time to teach your students how to make meaningful connections to the text. While they laugh at Amelia Bedelia and her antics, your students will also learn to make text-to-self connections based on their own silly mistakes.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,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
2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G
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Making Predictions with Amelia Bedelia

This lesson plan and set of teaching resources take advantage of Amelia Bedelia's predictable pattern of mistakes throughout the story.  By following the minilesson you'll give early readers plenty of practice making predictions about the cause and effect pattern of Amelia's actions.  Students will also learn to make logical predictions and check whether or not their predictions were correct.
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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Retelling & Summarizing with Amelia Bedelia

The limited cast of characters and a very clear order of events in Amelia Bedelia make it easy to use the book to model how readers retell and summarize. Use this lesson plan to guide readers as they name the characters in the story, identify key details about the characters, list Amelia Bedelia's chores, and more. The included reader's notebook prompt gives students additional practice retelling the events of Amelia Bedelia's day and summarizing what she did and did not do correctly.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.3,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
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8D,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with Amelia Bedelia

Peggy Parish's vivid descriptions of Amelia Bedelia's mishaps are particularly useful for teaching students to visualize.  The page-specific questions included in this resource set guide readers to identify words that can be used to create mental images while reading and the student practice pages provide additional support for readers who are learning to visualize.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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,2.10C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Consonants with Amelia Bedelia

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

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

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Amelia Bedelia

This set of vocabulary development resources for Amelia Bedelia 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 Amelia Bedelia

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Amelia Bedelia.
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Running Record with Amelia Bedelia

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Amelia Bedelia. 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 Amelia Bedelia

Read Amelia Bedelia 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 Amelia Bedelia. 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 Amelia Bedelia

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Amelia Bedelia 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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Writing with Amelia Bedelia

In the book Amelia Bedelia, Amelia makes a lot of mistakes. With this worksheet, students can draw upon their own experiences and write a friendly letter to Amelia Bedelia. Students can tell her about the mistakes they've made while doing chores, give her some advice, and offer suggestions to help her better understand her instructions.
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Asking Questions with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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Writing with Amelia Bedelia (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Amelia Bedelia
Author: Peggy Parish
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Perseverance, Decision Making, Self Awareness, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780694012961
Publisher's Summary:
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish is a delightful and enduring classic that invites laughter and language exploration into the classroom. The story introduces students to the well-meaning but hilariously literal-minded housekeeper, Amelia Bedelia, on her first day working for Mr. and Mrs. Rogers. When given a list of chores, Amelia follows each instruction exactly as written—often with unexpected and comical results. For example, instead of "drawing the drapes" closed, she draws a picture of them, and when told to "dust the furniture," she covers it with cosmetic powder.

The setting is a suburban home, and the main characters include Amelia Bedelia, Mr. Rogers, and Mrs. Rogers. The heart of the story lies in Amelia's earnest attempts to please her employers, even as she inadvertently creates chaos through her literal interpretations. The narrative is filled with wordplay, making it a wonderful springboard for lessons on idioms, multiple meanings, and the importance of clear communication.

Despite her mistakes, Amelia's warmth and enthusiasm win out, especially when she bakes a delicious lemon meringue pie that ultimately softens her employers' frustration. The book gently explores themes of forgiveness, understanding, and the value of kindness—even when things go awry. With its engaging language, humor, and relatable misunderstandings, Amelia Bedelia remains a favorite for fostering discussions about language, intent, and empathy in the classroom.
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