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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for An Angel for Solomon Singer

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Use An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Solomon Singer's story about finding hope and happiness through friendship provides rich practice in making inferences, identifying the author's purpose, and synthesizing to deepen comprehension of the text. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on exploring words that end in -ed, along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with An Angel for Solomon Singer

In this story, the author, Cynthia Rylant, implies several strong messages about the power of hope, happiness, and one's ability to overcome personal strife. When paired with this identifying the author's purpose lesson plan and set of teaching resources, An Angel for Solomon Singer offers more advanced readers the opportunity to practice identifying complex messages along with the opportunity to ponder a deeper author's purpose.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.3.2,RL.3.4,RL.3.6,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7E,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.10F,3.10D,3.10C,3.10B,3.10A,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.1A,3.7D,3.7C,3.7B,3.7A,3.6I,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Making Inferences with An Angel for Solomon Singer

Follow the page-specific questions included with this lesson plan and set of teaching resources to help students practice making inferences based on the text and the clues in the illustrations. Students will learn to infer a character's thoughts and feelings. Students will also practice making inferences about the reasons why Solomon changes throughout the story.
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RL.3.1,RL.3.4,RL.3.7,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7B,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.7D,3.7C,3.1A,3.7A,3.6I,3.6F,3.6B,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Synthesizing with An Angel for Solomon Singer

features a complex main character. When the reader meets Solomon, he is depressed and lacks hope. This lesson plan will guide students to synthesize the information they learn about Solomon over the course of the text to develop a better understanding of his journey to find happiness. The reader's notebook prompt included in this set of teaching resources offers an additional opportunity to practice synthesizing by asking readers to track their opinion of Solomon from the beginning to end of the book.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.3.1,RL.3.2,RL.3.3,RL.3.4,RL.3.5,RL.3.6,RL.3.7,RL.3.10,RF.3.3,RF.3.4,SL.3.1c,SL.3.1d,SL.3.2,SL.3.3,W.3.8,L.3.6
TEKS Alignment
3.7C,3.13H,3.13E,3.13C,3.8D,3.8C,3.7G,3.7F,3.7E,3.7D,3.1A,3.7B,3.6I,3.6H,3.6G,3.6A,3.1E,3.1D,3.1C
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Suffixes with An Angel for Solomon Singer

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use An Angel for Solomon Singer by Cynthia Rylant as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how adding suffix -ed to verbs are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with inflectional endings.

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RF.3.3,RF.3.4
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Vocabulary Connections with An Angel for Solomon Singer

This set of vocabulary development resources for An Angel for Solomon Singer 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.3.4a,L.3.5b,L.3.6
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3.7E,3.7F,3.3A,3.3B
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Comprehension Assessment with An Angel for Solomon Singer

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of An Angel for Solomon Singer.
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Running Record with An Angel for Solomon Singer

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with An Angel for Solomon Singer. 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 An Angel for Solomon Singer

Read An Angel for Solomon Singer 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 An Angel for Solomon Singer. 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 An Angel for Solomon Singer

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of An Angel for Solomon Singer 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 An Angel for Solomon Singer

The book, An Angel for Solomon Singer, is about a man who visits a café for dinner. While at the café he silently orders his dreams along with his food. With this worksheet, students will draw pictures of their dreams and write about the reasons they would like one of their dreams to come true.
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with An Angel for Solomon Singer (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with An Angel for Solomon Singer (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with An Angel for Solomon Singer (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: An Angel for Solomon Singer
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Self Management, Friendship
ISBN: 9780531070826
Publisher's Summary:
Solomon Singer, an older man now living alone in a men's hotel in New York City, misses the comforts and warmth of his childhood home in Indiana. Surrounded by the city's bustle and feeling out of place, he yearns for simple joys: a balcony, a window with a view, and the freedom to truly feel at home. One evening, his wandering brings him to the Westway Café, whose welcoming atmosphere and the promise that "all your dreams come true" catch his attention. There, he meets a kind waiter named Angel, whose gentle presence and friendly smile gradually bring comfort to Solomon.

Through his visits to the café, Solomon begins to reconnect with his memories and reimagines what "home" can mean, even in a place that feels so different from what he once knew. The story gently explores the themes of loneliness, longing, and the transformative power of kindness and human connection. Rylant's poetic text and Peter Catalanotto's evocative illustrations create a poignant portrait of a man finding hope and belonging in unexpected places. This story offers rich opportunities for classroom discussions about empathy, the meaning of home, and the importance of reaching out to others. An Angel for Solomon Singer invites students to consider how dreams, memories, and small acts of kindness can help us find a sense of home wherever we are.
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