Bark, George is a natural choice for readers learning to ask questions while reading. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers ask questions about the plot and characters. You can also use the resource set to help readers think about the types of questions that can expand their comprehension of the story.

The illustrations and simple text in Bark, George will have students rolling with laughter. Through utilizing the questions provided in this lesson, beginning readers will find it easy to understand this author's purpose for writing the story.

Bark, George is the perfect anchor text to use with students who are beginning to make inferences while reading. Students will be able to use their prior knowledge along with picture clues to make inferences about the characters and events in the book.

This book is perfect for students learning to make predictions while reading. Colorful cartoon drawings and a repetitive story structure help students predict which animal will appear next, deepening student engagement with this memorable book.

Use this retelling and summarizing set of resources to strengthen one of the most important comprehension skills for early readers. The questions included in this mini lesson will help students identify key elements in text structure, such as characters, setting, problem, and solution, making it easy for readers to engage with the text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Bark, George by Jules Fieffer as a springboard for instruction focused on onomatopoeias.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Bark, George 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 Bark, George.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Bark, George. 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.

Read Bark, George 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 Bark, George. 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 Bark, George 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.

The BookPagez extension activities are a great way to push student engagement beyond the pages of the text. Try using this activity with early finishers, with students who show a deeper connection with the text, or as a center activity.