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Use Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

The rich descriptive language used to illustrate the outrageous weather in ChewandSwallow is ideal for teaching students the strategies of determining importance, visualizing, synthesizing, and skilled retelling and summarizing.
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Determining Importance with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.
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
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2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.
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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
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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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Synthesizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.
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RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,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,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Young students will have tons of fun visualizing the outrageous weather in ChewandSwallow thanks to the vibrant language used by the author.
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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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Comprehension Assessment with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
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Syllables with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Cause and Effect Matching with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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.
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Writing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

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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Determining Importance with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Spanish)

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Writing with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (Spanish)

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Title: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Author: Judi Barrett
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Family, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9781847383242
Publisher's Summary:
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett is a beloved picture book that invites readers into a world where weather means more than just rain or sunshine—it means breakfast, lunch, and dinner falling from the sky. The story begins with a family enjoying breakfast together, after which the grandfather spins a whimsical bedtime tale for his grandchildren. In his story, the town of Chewandswallow experiences daily weather that serves up every meal straight from the clouds: soup, juice, mashed potatoes, and even hamburgers appear in place of traditional weather phenomena. At first, this extraordinary climate seems like a dream come true, with no need for grocery shopping and meals always at hand.

However, as the tale unfolds, the food weather becomes increasingly unpredictable and extreme. What once was a delightful convenience turns into a challenge when the portions grow uncontrollably large and storms of food threaten the townspeople's safety. The residents are faced with the reality that even magical solutions can bring unexpected problems. The book gently explores themes of adaptation, problem-solving, and the balance between abundance and excess. With its imaginative premise, humorous illustrations, and subtle messages about community and change, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs offers rich opportunities for classroom discussion and creative exploration, making it a lasting favorite for teachers and students alike.
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