Heckedy Peg is full of action, which means students will need to practice identifying the most important events and details in the story to effectively retell and comprehend the author's message.

Use the story of a vengeful witch named Heckedy Peg and the seven children she swindles to help readers make predictions about what might happen next.u00a0 This step-by-step mini lesson and student practice page make it easy for you to introduce the importance of making predictions while reading.

Heckedy Peg is an ideal text for supporting students who are practicing retelling and summarizing. This book has a clear storyline and cast of characters. Also, there is a significant problem presented, and readers will easily be able to identify the solution.

Is Heckedy Peg a good witch or a bad witch? Are her initial requests genuine? How do we know? Students will use prior knowledge as well as text and picture clues to draw out meaning and to identify how their thinking evolved throughout the story.

Using this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers recognize descriptive text, construct mental images, and compare their mental images with the text images.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood as a springboard for instruction focused on spelling.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Heckedy Peg 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 Heckedy Peg.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Heckedy Peg. 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 Heckedy Peg 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 Heckedy Peg. 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 Heckedy Peg 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.