As Otis goes about his busy day, readers will certainly have questions about what they see happening on the pages. Use this asking questions mini lesson to show students how to ask important questions as they read Loren Long's Otis's Busy Day.

Teach readers how to use their experiences, stories they have heard, and the world around them to better understand what is happening to Otis in Otis's Busy Day by Loren Long. This set of resources focused on making connections prompts students to think about ways to connect the text to themselves, other texts, and the world around them.

The illustrations in Loren Long's Otis's Busy Day contain many clues about what Otis is doing and how he is feeling during the day with his friends. This making inferences mini lesson encourages students to pause while reading and use the illustrations to understand how Otis is feeling.

Predicting what Otis will likely do next in Loren Long's Otis's Busy Day is one way for readers to think about what will come next in the story. This ready-to-use mini lesson provides readers with practice making and checking predictions.

Readers will be able to use the colorful illustrations of Otis singing, dancing, jumping, and making new friends to help them retell and summarize the story. Pair this focused mini lesson with Otis's Busy Day by Loren Long to help students remember the important characters, settings, and events of the story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Otis's Busy Day by Loren Long as a springboard for instruction focused on high-frequency words.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Otis's Busy Day 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 Otis's Busy Day.

Read Otis's Busy Day 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 Otis's Busy Day. 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 Otis's Busy Day 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.