This book and lesson plan are a smart choice for readers who are working to identify more complex author messages while reading. As the main character struggles with needing his father's approval, students will identify clear messages about self esteem and remaining true to yourself and your responsibilities.

Peppe the Lamplighter is a comprehensive resource for teaching readers about making multiple types of connections. Students will easily make personal connections to Peppe's emotions. But, in order to fully comprehend this story, growing readers will need to practice making connections to other texts and their prior knowledge about this time in history.

In order to draw out the full meaning and purpose of Peppe the Lamplighter, developing readers will need to connect to their own experiences and prior knowledge to infer details about the conflict between Peppe's feelings and his father's.

Peppe the Lamplighter offers readers plenty of opportunities to identify key story elements in order to effectively retell and summarize a text. Use the page by page guide included in this lesson plan and resource set to teach readers how to name and notice important characters, events, problems and solutions in this timeless story about a boy who discovers what it means to be needed by his family and his community.

Peppe the Lamplighter is a rather sophisticated picture book. This makes it an effective resource for challenging more advanced readers to apply multiple comprehension strategies to identify how the opinions and feelings of the characters change as a result of circumstances presented throughout this story.

The author of Peppe the Lamplighter uses engaging, descriptive language to support the reader's ability to visualize. This makes it an ideal book for readers who need to practice identifying words that can help them conduct movies in their minds for enhanced comprehension.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone as a springboard for instruction focused on parts of speech.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Peppe the Lamplighter 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 Peppe the Lamplighter.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Peppe the Lamplighter. 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 Peppe the Lamplighter 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 Peppe the Lamplighter. 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 Peppe the Lamplighter 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.