The author of Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook nicely connects the message of the book to its solution. This makes it a great book for helping early readers deepen their understanding of a story by identifying the author's purpose.

With a clear beginning, middle and end, Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook is a smart choice for a lesson on the retelling strategy. Early readers can easily define the problem and the solution as well as which events are most important to include in their summary of the story.

As characters literally jump from a storybook, the descriptive language used in Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook will help students who are practicing visualizing scenes to improve their reading comprehension.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook by Michael Garland as a springboard for instruction focused on consonants.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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 Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook. 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 Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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 Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook. 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 Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook 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.