Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for City Green

Use City Green by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In City Green, a young girl named Marcy is determined to build a community garden that will connect her neighbors and revitalize an abandoned urban lot next to her home. Students from all walks of life can enhance their understanding by connecting to Marcy's story in various ways and comparing and contrasting their own experiences with Marcy's.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with City Green in the drop down below.

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Identifying the Author's Purpose with City Green

City Green is a story that works to convey many themes and messages. In this lesson plan, students will work through identifying messages on community involvement, the challenges and triumphs of working with others, and more.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.10A,2.9C,2.8C,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Connections with City Green

City Green offers a unique opportunity for all students to connect with a world unlike their own. Students with planting and gardening experience will make text-to-self connections as they reflect on the anticipation of waiting for life to grow. Text-to-world connections will also be made as they learn more about living in an urban city center. Children who live in apartments or other areas where gardening is less commonplace can connect the story to their own neighborhood landscapes and what it might be like to have a garden of their own.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G
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Making Inferences with City Green

Old Man Hammer, the antagonist in City Green, is "hard as nails," and main character Marcy discovers some of the reasons why he's so mean and nasty. Through these discoveries, children will practice using text and illustrations to infer what happened to Old Man Hammer that makes him so gruff.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.8B,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6F,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with City Green

The distinct characters and clear problem and solution in City Green make this lesson plan perfect for practicing retelling. With a conventional linear progression, young readers will easily be able to identify the important events in this story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8D,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with City Green

The vivid language used in City Green to describe a littered vacant lot turned beautiful community garden will support readers who need additional practice with mental imagery. With this lesson plan, readers will learn how to identify specific words in the text to help them visualize basic nouns and human emotion.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Vowels with City Green

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use City Green by Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how long /a/ sound is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with long /a/ sound.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
RF.2.3,RF.2.4
TEKS Alignment
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Vocabulary Connections with City Green

This set of vocabulary development resources for City Green 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.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with City Green

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of City Green.
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Running Record with City Green

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with City Green. 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 City Green

Read City Green 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 City Green. 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 City Green

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of City Green 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 City Green

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.
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with City Green (Spanish)

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

Making Connections with City Green (Spanish)

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

Making Inferences with City Green (Spanish)

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

Retelling & Summarizing with City Green (Spanish)

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

Visualizing with City Green (Spanish)

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

Writing with City Green (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: City Green
Author: Dyanne DiSalvo-Ryan
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Friendship, Social Awareness, Decision Making, Perseverance
ISBN: 9781663625243
Publisher's Summary:
Right in the middle of Marcy's city block is a vacant lot, littered and forlorn. Sometimes just looking at it makes Marcy feel sad. Then one spring, Marcy has a wonderful idea: Instead of a useless lot, why not a green and growing space for everyone to enjoy? With her warm, hopeful text and inviting illustrations, DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan shows how a whole neighborhood blossoms when people join together and get involved.
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