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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Scarecrow

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Use Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Cynthia Rylant's poetic narrative provides readers with a glimpse into what life as a scarecrow is like. Created with discarded clothing and leftover buttons, a garden's scarecrow quietly observes and enjoys the world around him. He spends his day thinking long, slow thoughts and cultivating deep wisdom. Lauren Stringer's warm acrylics compliment the narrative, making it easy for readers to actively engage with the text while practicing a variety of comprehension strategies.
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Asking Questions with Scarecrow

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Asking Questions with Scarecrow

Use Cynthia Rylant's play on perspective in Scarecrow to show readers how to ask questions in order to uncover the deeper meaning of a story. This lesson plan and set of resources guides readers to ask meaningful questions, support their thinking with evidence from the text, and helps them to determine whether or not their questions will improve comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • SL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6RL.4.1W.4.9RL.4.4RL.4.6RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1d
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7D4.7E4.7F4.7G4.1A4.8C4.1C4.13A4.6A4.13C4.6B4.13E4.6I4.13H4.7B4.7C
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Making Connections with Scarecrow

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Making Connections with Scarecrow

Making connections is a skill most fourth grade readers should be able to use well. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to remind readers how important meaningful connections can be for overall comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • L.4.6W.4.9RL.4.1RL.4.3RL.4.6RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.2W.4.8
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7D4.7E4.1A4.7F4.1C4.7G4.6A4.13C4.6B4.13E4.6E4.13H4.6I4.7A4.7B4.7C
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Making Inferences with Scarecrow

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Making Inferences with Scarecrow

Making inferences is a complicated comprehension strategy. Use the simple story found within the pages of Scarecrow to show readers how to read between the lines. In doing so, readers will uncover a deeper message and gain a better understanding of how inferring can improve comprehension.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.4.9RL.4.3RL.4.4RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8L.4.6RL.4.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7D4.1A4.7E4.1C4.7F4.6A4.7G4.6B4.8A4.6E4.8B4.6F4.13C4.6I4.13E4.7A4.13H4.7B4.7C
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Synthesizing with Scarecrow

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Synthesizing with Scarecrow

It turns out a scarecrow is not all that meets the eye. In fact, scarecrows are very special creatures. Help students to synthesize and become more metacognitive by showing them how to track the ways in which their thinking about the scarecrow changes across throughout the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.4.4SL.4.1cRL.4.1SL.4.1dRL.4.2SL.4.2RL.4.3W.4.8RL.4.4L.4.6RL.4.5W.4.9RL.4.6RL.4.7RL.4.10RF.4.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.6E4.8B4.6H4.8C4.6I4.13C4.7A4.13E4.7B4.13H4.7C4.7D4.1A4.7E4.1C4.7F4.6A4.7G4.6B4.8A
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Visualizing with Scarecrow

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Visualizing with Scarecrow

Cynthia Rylant's use of imagery and poetic language provide an ideal opportunity for readers to practice visualizing. Use this lesson plan and set of resources to help readers attend to the descriptive language in order to from strong mental images and improve their comprehension of Scarecrow.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.4.4RL.4.7RL.4.10RF.4.3RF.4.4SL.4.1cSL.4.1dSL.4.2W.4.8RL.4.1L.4.6RL.4.3W.4.9
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.1A4.7F4.1C4.10C4.6A4.10D4.6B4.13C4.6D4.13E4.6E4.13H4.6I4.7A4.7B4.7C4.7E
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Synonyms with Scarecrow

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Synonyms with Scarecrow

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant as a springboard for instruction focused on synonyms.

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

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.4.3RF.4.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Scarecrow

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Vocabulary Connections with Scarecrow

This set of vocabulary development resources for Scarecrow 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.4.4aL.4.5cL.4.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 4.7E4.7F4.3A4.3B
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Running Record with Scarecrow

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Running Record with Scarecrow

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Scarecrow. 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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Retelling and Summarizing with Scarecrow

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Retelling and Summarizing with Scarecrow

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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Asking Questions with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Retelling and Summarizing with Scarecrow (Spanish)

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Title: Scarecrow
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Halloween, Fall
ISBN: 9780152010843
Publisher's Summary:
Scarecrows. They perch high above gardens and fields, with borrowed coats and button eyes and pie-pan hands that glint in the sun. What else is there to know about them? Perhaps more than we realize. Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant’s rich and poignant story, powerfully illustrated by Lauren Stringer, will resonate deeply in the hearts of readers, who just might find themselves seeing the world in a whole new way.
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