As students read through the story of an Elephant, his ice cream, and his decision to share, they will begin to explore the author's broader reason and purpose for writing the text.

This simple text allows readers to connect personally and to other texts based on the concepts of sharing and best friends. The important message also enables students to apply the text to a world concept.

Should I Share My Ice Cream? is a fun and exciting story that allows students to use their prior knowledge and picture clues to form their own inferences.

With this lesson, students will focus on the fun loving character Elephant. They will take note of Elephant's words and actions to determine how he changes and how their opinion of Elephant changes as well.

This mini lesson draws the readers' attention to the structure of problem and solution and cause and effect by looking at the clever illustrations and fun text.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Should I Share My Ice Cream? by Mo Willems as a springboard for instruction focused on digraphs.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how vowel digraphs -ee and -ea is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with digraphs.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Should I Share My Ice Cream? 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 Should I Share My Ice Cream?

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Should I Share My Ice Cream? 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 Should I Share My Ice Cream? 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 Should I Share My Ice Cream?. 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 Should I Share My Ice Cream? 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.