Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs offers young readers excellent practice in determining importance because they have to distinguish between the events that move the story along and the events that serve as pure entertainment.

The "story within a story" text structure in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is excellent practice for readers who are learning to retell and summarize more sophisticated texts. Readers need to distinguish the events and characters within both stories to effectively retell and summarize.

The variety of characters and unpredictable events in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs provide excellent practice to students working on synthesizing. Wouldn't it be cool if it rained juice? Students will enjoy discussing how their feelings changed on this matter throughout the story.

Young students will have tons of fun visualizing the outrageous weather in ChewandSwallow thanks to the vibrant language used by the author.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett as a springboard for instruction focused on syllables.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 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 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. 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 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 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 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. 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 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 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.