The subject matter in Henry's Freedom Box will naturally encourage students to ask questions to enhance their comprehension. They'll learn to identify questions they have about the setting, the characters and the characters' actions. They'll also have a chance to discuss how the answers to their questions can deepen their understanding.

If you're working with students who need practice identifying the author's purpose, Henry's Freedom Box is a great resource. Readers will easily be able to identify and discuss the author's clear messages about slavery, loss, freedom and bravery.

The themes of slavery, loss and freedom in Henry's Freedom Box allow more sophisticated readers to practice making deeper connections. In order to fully engage with this story, readers will need to make connections to other texts they've read about slavery and the prior knowledge they have about this topic.

Henry's Freedom Box evolves through many different settings, emotions and action sequences. This book and lesson plan are profound, effective resources for helping students practice synthesizing.

The author of Henry's Freedom Box uses descriptive language to establish the scenes, action and characters throughout the book. Readers will be able to create mental images and then compare with the book's illustrations to confirm their understanding.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine as a springboard for instruction focused on inflectional endings.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Henry's Freedom Box 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 Henry's Freedom Box.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Henry's Freedom Box. 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.

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Henry's Freedom Box 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.

Read Henry's Freedom Box 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 Henry's Freedom Box. 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.