In Biscuit's First Trip, the author clearly implies several messages about family and the excitement that surrounds going on a trip. This makes it a great choice for early readers who are beginning to identify the author's message while reading.

Biscuit's First Trip is the ideal anchor text for making connections. Most early readers have been on a road trip and will be able to reflect on their own experiences to connect with Biscuit's story. This text will also prompt readers to make text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

Making inferences is a complex strategy. It will feel almost automatic as you read Biscuit's First Trip and watch your students draw upon their own experiences to infer the anticipation and other emotions Biscuit might be feeling.

The clear, natural progression of Biscuit's First Trip lends nicely to a lesson on retelling and summarizing. Biscuit and his family go through a specific set of steps to prepare for their trip. This allows students to easily identify and retell what happens first, second, third and last.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Biscuit's First Trip by Alyssa Capucilli as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels and consonants.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how words ending in "y," (but sounds like long "e") are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Biscuits First Trip 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 Biscuit's First Trip.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Biscuits First Trip. 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 Biscuit's First Trip 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 Biscuit's First Trip. 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 Biscuit's First Trip 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.