Follow this mini lesson on determining importance and help students learn how to identify the important details of Kitten's full moon adventure.

Making inferences is a fun and deeper level comprehension strategy. Use this mini lesson and set of student resources to teach readers how to use both the text and illustrations to make inferences about Kitten's First Full Moon.

Being able to retell and summarize a story is essential for any reader's success. It can also be a difficult strategy for student's to grasp. Luckily Kevin Henkes simple story about a kitten who mistakes the moon for a bowl full milk works as an ideal springboard for a mini lesson focused on retelling and summarizing.

At first look, synthesizing can seem like a difficult strategy to teach. This lesson plan and set of student resources give you the tools you need to help students become more aware of the thinking they are doing while they read and most importantly.

Visualizing provides students the ability to make the story come to life and connect to a text. The more a child can connect, the more the child will learn about reading. Kittens First Full Moon provides students the opportunity to practice creating their own mental images to more deeply engage with the text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Kitten's First Full Moon 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 Kitten's First Full Moon.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Kitten's First Full Moon. 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 Kitten's First Full Moon 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 Kitten's First Full Moon. 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 Kitten's First Full Moon 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.