Almost all children have experienced the excitement of a Valentine and the frustration of teasing. Using Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink as an anchor text, students can apply their own experiences to make text-to-self connections. Themes from the book can also be used to practice text-to-text and text-to-world connections.

As this story unravels, early readers will be able to practice combining the detailed illustrations and text for clues about how the characters are feeling and what they are thinking.

This entertaining and meaningful story is an excellent resource for supporting readers who need additional practice retelling and summarizing. Beginner readers will easily be able to identify the author's purpose, and the sequential order of events is very clear.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane deGroat as a springboard for instruction focused on rhymes.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink 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 Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. 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 Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink 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 Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink. 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 Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink 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.