Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Fly Away Home

Use Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In Fly Away Home, a homeless boy named Andrew and his father discretely live in an airport because of the conveniences—and camouflage—it provides. The complex subject matter in Fly Away Home offers opportunities for rich lessons on retelling and summarizing, making inferences, making predictions and asking questions for more sophisticated readers.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Fly Away Home in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with Fly Away Home

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Asking Questions with Fly Away Home

This is a smart selection for readers who are working to ask questions to deepen their understanding. Readers will naturally wonder and pose questions about the characters and the choices they make to maintain their anonymity in the airport.
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Making Inferences with Fly Away Home

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Making Inferences with Fly Away Home

To fully understand and engage with Fly Away Home, most students will need to practice making inferences to make connections between their own feelings and what they think it might be like to be homeless.
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Making Predictions with Fly Away Home

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Making Predictions with Fly Away Home

Do you want to help your students make strong, logical predictions? With this Fly Away Home lesson plan, readers will naturally begin to think of solutions to the homeless boy's problem while also anticipating whether the boy and his father will find a home of their own.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Fly Away Home

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Retelling & Summarizing with Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home is ideal for helping more sophisticated readers practice retelling and summarizing stories to improve their comprehension. The subject matter appeals to a child's sense of curiosity, fear and sympathy, and your students will quickly identify main characters and key events.
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Vowels with Fly Away Home

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Vowels with Fly Away Home

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.

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Vocabulary Connections with Fly Away Home

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Vocabulary Connections with Fly Away Home

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.

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Running Record with Fly Away Home

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Running Record with Fly Away Home

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Fly Away Home. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with Fly Away Home

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Cause and Effect Matching with Fly Away Home

Read Fly Away Home 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 Fly Away Home. 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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Fly Away Home

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Fly Away Home

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Fly Away Home 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.

Features of Nonfiction Text with Fly Away Home

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Features of Nonfiction Text with Fly Away Home

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.

Asking Questions with Fly Away Home (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Fly Away Home (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with Fly Away Home (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Retelling & Summarizing with Fly Away Home (Spanish)

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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Features of Nonfiction Text with Fly Away Home (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Fly Away Home
Author: Eve Bunting
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Self Awareness, Family, Friendship, Decision Making, Relationship Skills
ISBN: 9780785709497
Publisher's Summary:
A homeless boy who lives in an airport with his father, moving from terminal to terminal trying not to be noticed, is given hope when a trapped bird finally finds its freedom.
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