Author Peggy Rathmann wrote Officer Buckle and Gloria to persuade readers to think about the importance of teamwork. Encourage readers to practice identifying the author's purpose while reading with this ready-to-use mini lesson and supporting materials.

When readers are able to see how a story is like something in their world, another story they have read, or themselves, they understand the text better. Pair this mini lesson with Officer Buckle and Gloria to prompt students to stop and think about meaningful connections as they read.

Peggy Rathmann's Officer Buckle and Gloria is an engaging anchor text for a making inferences mini lesson. The lively text and detailed illustrations provide clues for students to use while they practice this important skill.

Readers are able to make successful predictions when they attend to the clues that Peggy Rathmann included in Officer Buckle and Gloria. Students are also encouraged to check their thinking using the predictable text structure and detailed illustrations.

Noting the changes in Officer Buckle's character throughout the story is a great way to increase comprehension through synthesizing. This focused mini lesson shows students where to pause and reflect while reading.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann as a springboard for instruction focused on r-controlled vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Officer Buckle and Gloria 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 Officer Buckle and Gloria.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Officer Buckle and Gloria. 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 Officer Buckle and Gloria 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 Officer Buckle and Gloria. 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 Officer Buckle and Gloria 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.