Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright provides opportunities to practice sifting through essential details of both the text and illustrations. Being able to identify the most important details helps readers think deeply about the characters and their motivations.

When author Maureen Wright wrote Sneezy the Snowman, she included rhyme, hyphens, and ellipses to help tell this entertaining story. Use this focused mini lesson to help students pause and notice how authors communicate their purpose for writing.

Readers will combine their background knowledge with new ideas from both the text and illustrations to understand Sneezy's actions in the story. Use this synthesizing mini lesson with Sneezy the Snowman as a fun way to get students "thinking about their thinking".

Sneezy the Snowman has a problem unlike any snowman you have ever met- he's always cold! Readers will enjoy discovering how Sneezy tries to solve his problem while gaining experience with the following text structures: problem/solution, cause/effect, and description.

Lively illustrations will help students check their thinking as they practice visualizing with Maureen Wright's Sneezy the Snowman. This paired mini lesson provides ideal places in the text for students to pause and create a picture in their mind while reading.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright as a springboard for instruction focused on syllables.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how r-controlled syllable is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with syllables.

This set of vocabulary development resources for Sneezy the Snowman 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 Sneezy the Snowman.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Sneezy the Snowman. 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 Sneezy the Snowman 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 Sneezy the Snowman. 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 Sneezy the Snowman 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.