As Santa is hired and fired on his path to become "you-know-who", students will find it easy to identify the important skills that he takes away from each of his different jobs. Use this determining importance mini lesson with Stephen Krensky's How Santa Got His Job to help your readers pay attention to the important details as they read.

Connecting to the unknown side of Santa in How Santa Got His Job is great fun for readers. The new twist involving a very well know main character provides ample opportunities for your students to make connections to themselves, between texts, and to the real world.

Readers can use their vast background knowledge about Santa to help them synthesize the new information presented in How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky. This paired mini lesson points out ideal places to pause while reading and think about how the details of Santa's work history fit together.

How Santa Got His Job is an engaging example of a problem and solution text structure for your students to work with. Each job in Santa's work history presents a new problem that needs to be solved. Students will enjoy using this mini lesson to see how all of the solutions come together at the end of the story!

Teach your readers to increase their understanding of the story by using the author's words to create a "movie in their mind". Use Stephen Krensky's How Santa Got His Job and this mini lesson focused on visualizing to discover smart places for your students to stop while reading and check their thinking.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use How Santa Got His Job by Stephen Krensky as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for How Santa Got His Job 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 Santa Got His Job.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with How Santa Got His Job. 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 Santa Got His Job 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 Santa Got His Job. 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 Santa Got His Job 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.