Little Bear's Visit is a smart choice for readers who are beginning to determine importance to improve reading comprehension across longer texts. Readers will have to determine which information is most important for enhancing understanding in each chapter of the book.

This book and lesson plan will support readers who are learning to make different types of connections to improve reading comprehension. Most children will be able to make text-to-self connections between Little Bear's visit to his grandparents' home with time spent with their own grandparents. Text-to-text connections can also be made between the family relationships described in this story and stories from other lessons.

For readers who are learning to retell longer pieces of text, Little Bear's Visit works well because the cast of characters is limited, and readers can focus on the events, problems and solutions in each chapter. Use this book to guide readers in sustaining comprehension across longer texts by encouraging them to summarize and retell after each chapter.

This is the perfect book for introducing the chapter text structure to beginning readers. With four chapters, readers will learn that chapter books are longer stories broken into shorter sections that work together to support a specific story line.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Little Bear's Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik as a springboard for instruction focused on syllables.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Little Bear's Visit 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 Little Bear's Visit.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Little Bear's Visit. 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 Little Bear's Visit 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 Little Bear's Visit. 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 Little Bear's Visit 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.