How a Seed Grows is a smart choice for a mini lesson focused on asking questions. As readers learn how a seed becomes a full-grown plant, students' natural curiosity will cause them to ask questions about the information presented in the book.

Use this determining importance mini lesson and set of student resources to teach readers how to identify the main ideas and most important facts in an informational text. Readers will use both words and pictures to determine what plants need to grow, how seeds grow, and more.

Most children have experienced gardening. Whether they've planted a seed themselves or learned about plant growth in science class, readers will easily be able to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. This book is also an excellent anchor text for a nonfiction genre study or a supplement to your science curriculum.

How a Seed Grows pairs well with a lesson on retelling and summarizing for early readers. The information is instructional and is presented in a step-by-step manner. This will allow readers to easily identify what happens first, next, then last in the process of growing a seed into a plant.

This is an ideal book for readers who need additional practice visualizing while reading. Students will be able to see themselves following each step of the planting process as they read through the detailed descriptions presented by the author.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use How a Seed Grows by Helene J. Jordan as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how long vowel digraphs (ai/ea/oa/ay) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

This set of vocabulary development resources for How a Seed Grows 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 How a Seed Grows.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with How a Seed Grows. 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 How a Seed Grows 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 How a Seed Grows. 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 How a Seed Grows 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.