Use Doctor De Soto by William Steig to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Doctor De Soto by William Steig as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how Latin suffixes are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with Latin suffixes.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Doctor De Soto 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.
In Doctor De Soto, a kind and clever dentist helps animals in need—even when it’s risky! This worksheet invites students to explore words with Latin suffixes. Using the Suffix Box as a guide, students will identify and sort words by coloring those with Latin suffixes and crossing out those without. This activity strengthens vocabulary skills and builds awareness of how suffixes change the meaning of words.
