Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Are You a Snail?

Use Are You a Snail? by Judy Allen to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

This charming nonfiction book takes young readers on an exciting journey to explore the life of a snail and its surroundings. Through engaging illustrations and simple, informative text, readers discover how snails move, eat, and protect themselves. The book also introduces other creatures living in the same habitat.

Use it along with the BookPagez teaching resources to learn about snails to teach students multiple comprehension strategies, like making connections, determining importance, making inferences, understanding text structures, and visualizing. Additionally, this collection of teaching resources includes a lesson plan focused on final phonemes (-ll and -ff) along with vocabulary development resources and two assessments.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Are You a Snail? in the drop down below.

Determining Importance with Are You a Snail?

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Determining Importance with Are You a Snail?

This lesson plan for Are You a Snail? encourages readers to stop throughout the text to notice interesting facts, ask questions, and to reflect on the most important facts and ideas to remember from the text as a whole. Some of the important facts students will learn to identify include facts about a snail's tongue and the dangers snails face.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Making Connections with Are You a Snail?

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Making Connections with Are You a Snail?

This set of teaching resources is perfect for students who are beginning to make connections while reading nonfiction text. While reading Are You a Snail? students will be prompted to make connections between a baby snail and a human baby. Students will also learn to make text-to-text and text-to-world connections.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Making Inferences with Are You a Snail?

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Making Inferences with Are You a Snail?

This set of making inferences teaching resources uses Are You a Snail? by Janet Allen as a springboard for instruction focused on making inferences while reading nonfiction text. The set of text-dependent questions included in this resource guides students to use their schema and the illustrations to make inferences about snails, thrushes, and slugs.
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Understanding Text Structure with Are You a Snail?

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Understanding Text Structure with Are You a Snail?

The author of Are You a Snail? uses multiple nonfiction text structures to organize facts about snails.  Use this lesson plan to teach readers how to gather important information from text structures like sequencing, description, and comparing and contrasting.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Visualizing with Are You a Snail?

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Visualizing with Are You a Snail?

By using Are You a Snail? to teach visualization, you will provide students with the opportunity to make connections between their world and the world described in this nonfiction text. Use the page-specific questions included in this visualizing lesson plan to teach readers how to check their visualizations against the illustrations to determine if they are on the right track.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Consonants with Are You a Snail?

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Consonants with Are You a Snail?

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Are You a Snail? by Judy Allen as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

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

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Vocabulary Connections with Are You a Snail?

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Vocabulary Connections with Are You a Snail?

This set of vocabulary development resources for Are You a Snail? 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
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Running Record with Are You a Snail?

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Running Record with Are You a Snail?

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Are You a Snail? 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.

Features of Nonfiction Text with Are You a Snail?

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Features of Nonfiction Text with Are You a Snail?

Invite students to show off their snail knowledge with this fun worksheet for Are You a Snail? by Judy Allen. Students will draw a picture of a snail in its home, label the parts of a snail, write a caption about their picture, and write one interesting fact about snails in a speech bubble. Perfect for centers, as a book bin activity, or as a mini-research report.

Determining Importance with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Connections with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Making Inferences with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Visualizing with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Features of Nonfiction Text with Are You a Snail? (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Are You a Snail?
Author: Judy Allen
Genre: Informational, Nonfiction
Themes: Animals & Insects
ISBN: 9780753452424
Publisher's Summary:
Do not go where humans go. You could get squashed. You move too slowly to get out of the way. Watch out for that giant foot! Be careful of the poison in the garden! When you look at life from the perspective of a small mollusk, the backyard suddenly becomes a daunting place. A young snail faces many challenges as it tries to grow safely into an adult, while continuing on its daily quest for food. All the facts a young child needs to understand the life of this intriguing backyard creatures are packed into an engaging narrative.
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