Students can easily connect with Molly Lou Melon while learning how to think about the author's purpose while reading. Beginner readers will be able to identify these messages early in the book, which will allow them to practice supporting the author's message with evidence from the rest of the text.

This text is especially well-suited for a lesson on making connections. Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon presents themes about teasing and self-confidence. Most students at this level will be able to draw text-to-self connections between their own experiences and Molly Lou's. Readers should also be able to make text-to-text connections between this book and others with similar themes.

The author of Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon presents her message early in the story. This allows readers to practice making inferences throughout the story about what the main character may be thinking or feeling based on the overall purpose.

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon is an ideal book and lesson plan for supporting developing readers who need practice retelling and summarizing. This book has a limited cast of characters, so students can focus on the clear problem, resolution and order of events.

Students will enjoy constructing images in their minds with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. The humorous, over-the-top descriptions of Molly Lou are good support for your students' visualizations. Readers also have the opportunity to compare their mental images against the funny illustrations.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon 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 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. 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 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon 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 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon. 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 Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon 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.