Caps for Sale follows a very logical cause and effect sequence, which provides students with many opportunities to check their predictions against the actual outcomes of the book.

The Caps for Sale lesson plan is a smart choice to use with beginning readers who are learning to demonstrate reading comprehension through the retelling of basic stories. Students should be able to identify the peddler's predicament as well as the resolution, events, setting and additional characters.

This fun, easy read is built on repetition and patterns, which offers young readers excellent practice in observing text structure and anticipating text based on what they know about repetitive texts.

This visualizing lesson plan will help teach readers how to use text to imagine how characters might look during the humorous action sequences in this story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Caps for Sale 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 Caps for Sale.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Caps for Sale. 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 Caps for Sale 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 Caps for Sale. 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 Caps for Sale 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.