Students will have questions about why Little Critter is getting into so much trouble. Use these resources to help guide them to ask important questions about what they are reading.

Use this mini lesson on determining importance to help students learn how to identify the important details of Little Critter's adventure in the city.

The story of Little Critter who gets into mischief while having an adventure with his mom will be relatable for most readers. This lesson plan is perfect for helping students make those text to text, text to self, and text to world connections.

Students will enjoy using the text and the pictures in the story to practice making inferences. They will be able to infer the feelings of both Little Critter and his mom by reading the words and looking at the characters' facial expressions.

Just Me and My Mom is a fun story about an adventure in a big city. Using this lesson plan, students will be able to successfully identify and retell important information about the events in the story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Mayer as a springboard for instruction focused on VCe syllables.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how words that end in VCe (vowel-consonant-e) syllable are used inside the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with VCe syllables.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Just Me and My Mom 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 Just Me and My Mom.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Just Me and My Mom. 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 Just Me and My Mom 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 Just Me and My Mom. 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 Just Me and My Mom 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.