Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Peter’s Chair

Use Peter’s Chair by Ezra Jack Keats to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Peter loves his new baby sister, but he doesn't love having to play more quietly or sharing his old belongings with the new baby. Beginning readers will easily connect to Peter and his problem while also practicing retelling and summarizing, determining importance, and making predictions.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with Peter’s Chair in the drop down below.

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Making Connections with Peter's Chair

 
Peter's problem is a familiar one in many households, which is why it's a great resource if you're teaching early readers to make connections while reading. Many students relate to Peter's concerns about a new baby sister and feeling left out.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.4,RL.1.9,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7D,1.13E,1.13D,1.13A,1.10E,1.8C,1.8B,1.7F,1.7E,1.1A,1.7C,1.7B,1.7A,1.6I,1.6E,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Making Predictions with Peter's Chair

 
What will Peter do with his old baby chair? Will he learn to share with this new baby sister? By connecting to their own experiences, early readers will be able to use Peter's Chair to practice making logical predictions while reading.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.9,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7E,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10C,1.10B,1.9C,1.8C,1.8B,1.7F,1.1A,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6E,1.6C,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Retelling & Summarizing with Peter's Chair

 
Peter's Chair is ideal for beginning readers who are learning to retell and summarize. This simply storyline makes it easy to identify the key events and characters as well as the problem and solution.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.1.1,RL.1.2,RL.1.3,RL.1.7,RL.1.10,RF.1.1,RF.1.2,SL.1.1b,SL.1.2,SL.1.3,SL.1.5,W.1.5,W.1.8,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7F,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10A,1.9C,1.8D,1.8C,1.8B,1.8A,1.1A,1.7E,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6G,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Digraphs with Peter's Chair

 

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Peter's Chair by Ezra Jack Keats as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how consonant digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh) are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with words.

Common Core State Standards Alignment
RF.1.3,RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Peter's Chair

This set of vocabulary development resources for Peter's Chair 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
L.1.4a,L.1.5c,L.1.6
TEKS Alignment
1.7F,1.3A,1.3B,1.3C,1.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Peter's Chair

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Peter's Chair.
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Running Record with Peter's Chair

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Peter's Chair. 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.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Peter's Chair

Read Peter's Chair 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 Peter's Chair. 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.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Peter's Chair

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Peter's Chair 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.
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Parts of Speech with Peter's Chair

 
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.
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Making Connections with Peter's Chair (Spanish)

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

Making Predictions with Peter's Chair (Spanish)

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

Retelling & Summarizing with Peter's Chair (Spanish)

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

Parts of Speech with Peter's Chair (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: Peter’s Chair
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Relationship Skills, Self Awareness, Family
ISBN: 9780670880645
Publisher's Summary:
Peter, the hero of many of Ezra Jack Keats' award-winning books, has a new baby sister. When she arrives, his parents paint his old baby furniture pink for the new baby. There's only one thing they haven't painted yet, though: his little blue chair. He'll do whatever it takes to save it—even run away! This is a gentle and reassuring story about sibling rivalry and a perfect gift for any family expecting a new baby.
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