Readers will certainly wonder about all of Cookie's accidents in Cindy Ward's Cookie's Week. This asking questions mini lesson will turn student wondering into meaningful practice that will improve their understanding of the story.

Cookie's Week by author Cindy Ward is ideal for a mini lesson focused on making inferences using picture clues. Illustrator Tomie dePaola included enough detail to allow readers to use the illustrations to construct meaning while reading the simple storyline.

Thinking about what will logically happen next is fun with mischievous Cookie. This making predictions mini lesson will show students where to pause and use the text and illustrations to think about what might happen next in Cookie's Week.

Cindy Ward's use of cause and effect and problem and solution in Cookie's Week allows readers to practice identifying these commonly used text structures in a very logical way.

The basic text in Cookie's Week provides students with the opportunity to create their own mental images. Use this visualizing mini lesson to guide students through how to compare their images of Cookie's antics with the illustrations in the text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Cookies Week by Cindy Ward as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Cookie's Week 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 Cookie's Week.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Cookie's Week. 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 Cookie's Week 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 Cookie's Week. 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 Cookie's Week 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.