Students will have plenty of opportunities to determine which parts of this story are most important to remember. With it's blend of fiction and honest description of a modern day pilgrimage, How Many Days to America? is a smart choice to use when teaching readers to determine importance.

Use this lesson plan and set of resources to encourage readers to make inferences about the events and the characters described in How Many Days to America?

Use this lesson plan and set of resources to challenge students to identify the key elements within this sophisticated story in order to summarize How Many Days to America?

The family's story in How Many Days to America? is one that may be difficult for readers to fully understand. Help them to comprehend the information presented in this book with this synthesizing lesson plan and set of resources.

How Many Days to America? offers readers a rich description of what it means to board a boat, sail across the sea, and land on America's shores. Use this lesson plan to help your students make strong mental images while reading this story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use How Many Days to America? by Eve Bunting as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for How Many Days to America? 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 Many Days to America?

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with How Many Days to America? 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 Many Days to America? 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 Many Days to America?. 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 Many Days to America? 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.