There are very strong messages to discuss about friendship, betrayal and loss in this story. Intermediate-level readers will even be able to practice supporting the author's purpose with evidence from the text.

Using Fox as an anchor text, students will be challenged to make more sophisticated and meaningful connections in order to fully comprehend the text. Students will make connections between the friendships in the story and their own, as well as connections to friendship dynamics in other stories they've read.

With two main characters that form a bond during tragedy and then have their friendship tested by the introduction of a third character, Fox is the perfect text to show students how meaning and understanding changes and builds throughout a story.

Fox works well to support readers who are working to use multiple reading strategies to improve comprehension. In this lesson plan, readers will have to pay attention to text structure, descriptive language and the order of events to fully comprehend the reading.

The author's rich descriptions of the settings and emotions in Fox will make it easy for students to visualize in their minds the actions and consequences of each character.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Fox by Margaret Wild as a springboard for instruction focused on blends.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Fox 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 Fox.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Fox. 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 Fox 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 Fox. 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 Fox 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.