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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Snowmen at Night

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Use Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Why do snowmen look crooked and droopy the day after you build them? What do they do at night? This imaginative story about the secret nightlife of snowmen will delight early readers while they begin to practice improving their comprehension by making connections, visualizing and asking questions.
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Asking Questions with Snowmen at Night

The whimsical premise of this book makes it a great fit for a lesson on asking questions. Early readers will naturally feel compelled to ask relevant questions that will help them distinguish between fantasy and reality in this story.
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RL.1.1,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
1.7D,1.13E,1.13D,1.13A,1.10E,1.8C,1.8B,1.7F,1.7E,1.1A,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6E,1.6B,1.6A,1.1D,1.1C
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Making Connections with Snowmen at Night

Snowmen at Night is a good supporting text for beginner readers who are learning to make connections while reading. It works especially well with students who can apply their own experiences building a snowman. Readers can also connect to facts they've learned about melting snow from other texts, like The Snowy Day.
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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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Visualizing with Snowmen at Night

This book and lesson plan are perfect for a beginner lesson on visualizing. The author uses descriptive, entertaining language to help spark imaginative visualizations. Students can also draw on what they already know about snowmen to construct their mental images.
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RL.1.3,RL.1.4,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
1.7E,1.13E,1.13D,1.10E,1.10D,1.10C,1.9C,1.8D,1.8B,1.7F,1.1A,1.7D,1.7C,1.7B,1.6I,1.6E,1.6D,1.6A,1.1C
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Rhymes with Snowmen at Night

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner 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.

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RF.1.3,RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with Snowmen at Night

This set of vocabulary development resources for Snowmen at Night 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
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1.7F,1.3A,1.3B,1.3C,1.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with Snowmen at Night

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of Snowmen at Night.
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Running Record with Snowmen at Night

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Snowmen at Night. 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 Snowmen at Night

Read Snowmen at Night 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 Snowmen at Night. 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 Snowmen at Night

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of Snowmen at Night 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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Retelling and Summarizing with Snowmen at Night

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 Snowmen at Night (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Snowmen at Night (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Snowmen at Night (Spanish)

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Retelling and Summarizing with Snowmen at Night (Spanish)

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Title: Snowmen at Night
Author: Caralyn Buehner
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Winter
ISBN: 9781101550007
Publisher's Summary:
Have you ever built a snowman and discovered the next day that his grin has gotten a little crooked, or his tree-branch arms have moved? And you've wondered . . . what do snowmen do at night? This delightful wintertime tale reveals all! Caralyn Buehner's witty, imaginative verse offers many amusing details about the secret life of snowmen and where they go at night, while Mark Buehner's roly-poly snowmen are bursting with personality and charm. From the highly successful team that created such winning titles as Fanny's Dream, Snowmen at Night is fabulous, frosty, and fun!
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