Through each of Curious George's mischievous adventures, students will have an opportunity to practice making connections to the results of their own actions, connections to knowledge they have from other texts, and connections to observations they've made out in their world.

This lesson plan is perfect for supporting students who need additional practice making predictions. Readers will easily be able to apply prior knowledge and understanding of story structure to make predictions about the results of George's actions.

For students who need to show growth in their ability to retell basic stories, Curious George is an ideal book and lesson plan. With a simple cast of characters, students will be able to focus on identifying Curious George's sequence of mischievous events and their settings without distraction.

The simple language used in this story is a great help to beginner readers who are working on identifying descriptive words that enable them to build illustrations in their mind.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Curious George by H.A. Rey as a springboard for instruction focused on diphthongs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how diphthongs (au/ou) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with diphthongs.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Curious George 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 Curious George.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Curious George. 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 Curious George 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 Curious George. 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 Curious George 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.