Deepen student understanding of My Mouth Is A Volcano! by focusing on asking important questions. This mini lesson shows the reader ideal places to pause and wonder about Louis and his problem.

Use this lesson plan with Julia Cook's My Mouth Is A Volcano! to set your students on successful path to determining importance by identifying the characters, settings, events, and circumstances that effect the main character.

Teach students to improve their reading comprehension by using personal experiences, familiar books, and the world around them to make connections to Louis, his problem and solution, and the text's bigger lesson for the reader.

Students will love practicing the skill of making logical predictions with My Mouth Is A Volcano!. Using evidence from the text and illustrations, readers think about what will come next for Louis and his "erupting" mouth.

Synthesizing is ability to think about how your opinions of a character or problem change throughout the story. This mini lessons will teach students to look for the event(s) that cause Louis to change his interrupting ways.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use My Mouth Is a Volcano! by Julia Cook as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for My Mouth Is a Volcano! 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 My Mouth Is a Volcano!

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with My Mouth Is a Volcano! 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 My Mouth Is a Volcano! 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 My Mouth Is a Volcano!. 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 My Mouth Is a Volcano! 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.