Gleam and Glow makes it easy for readers to practice asking questions while reading. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help your students ask meaningful questions to deepen their comprehension of what it means to live through a war.

Gleam and Glow is a smart choice for readers who need practice determining importance while reading. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help students identify the details that are most important to notice while reading the story.

Gleam and Glow will challenge readers to make connections between their prior knowledge and the text. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to support students as they work to make more sophisticated connections in order to deepen comprehension of this beautifully told story.

Readers will enjoy making inferences while reading Gleam and Glow. Challenge your students to identify the hidden story within the pages of this book to uncover the effects of war, character motivation, and how it might have felt to live through the Bosnian War.

With it's large cast of characters, a story that takes place over half a decade, and a clear message, Gleam and Glow is a smart choice for readers learning to retell and summarize sophisticated picture books. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to teach students how to identify key story elements.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting as a springboard for instruction focused on homophones.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Gleam and Glow 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 Gleam and Glow.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Gleam and Glow 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.

Read Gleam and Glow 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 Gleam and Glow. 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 Gleam and Glow 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.