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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Frog and Toad Are Friends

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Use Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Frog and Toad Are Friends is a series of five, stand-alone stories tied together with the common theme of friendship. Frog and his best friend Toad, go on many adventures and share day-to-day activities that are all made a little sweeter by being in the company of a good friend. The relatable subject matter, detailed illustrations, and short story format work together to lay the foundation for comprehension strategy work related to asking questions, determining importance, making connections, synthesizing, and understanding text structure.
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Asking Questions with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
Help readers deepen their understanding of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends by encouraging them to ask questions about the text. This focused mini lesson shows students important places to stop and wonder about the characters and events of the short stories.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Determining Importance with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
Identifying the details that are most important to understanding the text is a skill that readers need to practice. This mini lesson uses the short stories in Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel to show students how to pay close attention to characters, the settings of important events, and clues that help solve problems.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Connections with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
The familiar theme of friendship is a springboard for making connections while reading Frog and Toad Are Friends. Making connections between the text and themselves, other books, and the real world helps students to better understand the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.1A,2.1C,2.1D,2.6A,2.6E,2.6I,2.7A,2.7B,2.7C,2.7D,2.7E,2.7F,2.8C,2.13C,2.13E,2.13G
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Synthesizing with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
While reading Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Are Friends, students will be challenged to think about how their view of Frog, Toad, and events of each of the short stories might change as they read. This ability to "think about their thinking" shows that students are ready to deeply comprehend the text by synthesizing.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
Positively impact reading comprehension by teaching students to identify and comprehend sequence, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution text structures. This understanding text structure mini lesson is a ready-to-use resource for practicing these skills with Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Vowels with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how word with i_e pattern is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with long i vowel sounds.

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Frog and Toad Are Friends

This set of vocabulary development resources for Frog and Toad Are Friends 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
L.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Frog and Toad Are Friends

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Frog and Toad Are Friends.
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Running Record with Frog and Toad Are Friends

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Frog and Toad Are Friends. 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.

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Writing with Frog and Toad Are Friends

 
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.
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Asking Questions with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Writing with Frog and Toad Are Friends (Spanish)

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Title: Frog and Toad Are Friends
Author: Arnold Lobel
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Award Winners, Valentine's Day, Friendship
ISBN: 9780062572738
Publisher's Summary:
From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other--just as best friends should be.
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