Use Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse is a heartwarming story filled with lessons about patience, respect, and learning from our mistakes. Kevin Henkes' engaging illustrations and relatable characters make this an excellent resource for developing key comprehension strategies.
This resource set includes activities focused on retelling and summarizing, making inferences, and understanding text structure, offering students multiple ways to deepen their understanding of the story. Students will also explore alliteration as the word work focus and tackle a challenging vocabulary list. These activities ensure that students build their literacy skills in a fun and meaningful way.
Kevin Henkes' text and illustrations in Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse encourage readers to infer characters' emotions and motivations. Students will dive into moments like Lilly's reaction to Mr. Slinger taking her purse or her realization of his kindness through the note and snacks. These activities challenge students to use textual evidence and picture clues to understand how characters feel and why they act the way they do.
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse provides a clear sequence of events, making it perfect for practicing retelling and summarizing. Students will summarize key events the beginning, middle, and end of the story, identifying key moments such as Lilly's excitement about her purse, her conflict with Mr. Slinger, and her eventual apology.
The story of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse uses various text structures, including problem and solution, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. Students will examine how Lilly's impatience creates her problem, how her apology resolves it, and how her choices evolve from the beginning to the end. These activities help students recognize how the story's structure supports its central message about learning from mistakes.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes as a springboard for instruction focused on alliteration.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how alliteration is used inside the text before engaging in guided and independent practice with alliteration.
This set of vocabulary development resources for Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 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.
Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 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.
Read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse 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 a hands-on and interactive way.
This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse. 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.
Inspired by Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, this activity encourages students to reflect on what brings them comfort and confidence during the school day. Children will imagine their own special bag and draw the items they would keep inside—things that help them feel happy, calm, or brave. This social-emotional learning activity promotes self-awareness and creativity while connecting to a beloved character’s story.
