Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Use Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Molly Lou Melon is fumble-fingered, bucktoothed, and sings like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor! But, Molly Lou's grandmother taught her to walk proudly with confidence, no matter what. Will Grandma's advice help Molly when she runs into a bully at her new school? Molly Lou's story is the perfect resource for developing readers who are working to make connections. Students can also practice building skills in retelling and summarizing, visualizing, and making inferences.

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Making Connections with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Making Connections with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Making Inferences with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Making Inferences with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Retelling & Summarizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Retelling & Summarizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Visualizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Visualizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Vowels with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Vowels with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.

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Vocabulary Connections with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Vocabulary Connections with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.

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Running Record with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Running Record with 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.

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Cause and Effect Matching with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Cause and Effect Matching with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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.
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Writing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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Writing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

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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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Making Connections with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Visualizing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Writing with Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon (Spanish)

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Molly Lou Melon Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources
Title: Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon
Author: Patty Lovell
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Bullying, Relationship Skills, Self Management, Social Awareness, Friendship, Perseverance, Decision Making
ISBN: 9780399234163
Publisher's Summary:
Be yourself like Molly Lou Melon no matter what a bully may do. Molly Lou Melon is short and clumsy, has buck teeth, and has a voice that sounds like a bullfrog being squeezed by a boa constrictor. She doesn't mind. Her grandmother has always told her to walk proud, smile big, and sing loud, and she takes that advice to heart. But then Molly Lou has to start in a new school. A horrible bully picks on her on the very first day, but Molly Lou Melon knows just what to do about that.
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