Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Owl Moon

Use Owl Moon by Jane Yolen to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In Owl Moon, a young girl joins her father on a silent walk in the winter chill to spot an owl. They don't always find an owl on their walks, but they always have hope. This story of a peaceful, quiet owling" adventure is perfect for a lesson on visualizing, as well as making inferences, asking questions and understanding multiple different text structures."

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Owl Moon in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with Owl Moon

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Asking Questions with Owl Moon

 
The new, unique topic of "owling" introduced in Owl Moon is an excellent way to encourage students to ask questions while reading. As they work through this text, they'll enhance their understanding by asking about the activities, locations, settings and characters in this story.
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Making Inferences with Owl Moon

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Making Inferences with Owl Moon

 
Owl Moon is an ideal book for supporting readers who need additional practice making inferences. For many students, this will be the first time they learn about "owling," so they will need to use the illustrations to infer further information about the setting and the characters.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Understanding Text Structure with Owl Moon

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Understanding Text Structure with Owl Moon

 
Owl Moon is a smart choice for a lesson on identifying and understanding different text structures. As students read through this text, they will stop to think about spots in the story where the author uses comparing and contrasting, sequence, description, and cause and effect.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Visualizing with Owl Moon

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Visualizing with Owl Moon

 
The author of Owl Moon uses gentle, poetic language to describe the wintery outdoor setting and the feelings of the book's narrator. This serene story will allow readers to focus on the descriptions and their own mental images of what it might be like to go owling themselves.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
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Vowels with Owl Moon

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Vowels with Owl Moon

 

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Owl Moon by Jane Yolen as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how words with long o, ou, and oo sounds are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

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Vocabulary Connections with Owl Moon

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Vocabulary Connections with Owl Moon

This set of vocabulary development resources for Owl Moon 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.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
TEKS Alignment

Running Record with Owl Moon

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Running Record with Owl Moon

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Owl Moon. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with Owl Moon

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Cause and Effect Matching with Owl Moon

Read Owl Moon 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 Owl Moon. 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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Owl Moon

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Owl Moon

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Owl Moon 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.

Parts of Speech with Owl Moon

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Parts of Speech with Owl Moon

 
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.

Asking Questions with Owl Moon (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Making Inferences with Owl Moon (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with Owl Moon (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Visualizing with Owl Moon (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Parts of Speech with Owl Moon (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Owl Moon
Author: Jane Yolen
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Award Winners, Perseverance, Adventure, Winter, Family
ISBN: 9780399214578
Publisher's Summary:
Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird. But there is no answer. Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling you don't need words. You don't need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn't an owl, but sometimes there is.
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