In Oliver Button Is a Sissy, the author repeats the main message several times throughout the text. Readers will easily recognize that message early in the book and can practice using text cues to confirm the message as they move through the story.

This is the perfect book for teaching students how making connections can improve comprehension. Most children will be able to connect to a time when they felt bullied because of something that makes them unique, just like Oliver. The overall theme also presents opportunities for text-to-text connections with books like Chrysanthemum or Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon.

Oliver wears a brave face, so to fully comprehend the feelings and emotions of the main character, readers will need to practice making inferences throughout this story.

With a limited cast of characters and a clear problem, Oliver Button Is a Sissy works well to support readers who need additional practice identifying key events and retelling and summarizing.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Oliver Button Is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Oliver Button Is a Sissy 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 Oliver Button Is a Sissy.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Oliver Button Is a Sissy. 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 Oliver Button Is a Sissy 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 Oliver Button Is a Sissy. 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 Oliver Button Is a Sissy 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.