Use Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting 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 Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how bossy E words are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Fly Away Home 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.