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Use The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

In this clever story, readers will learn about how the sandwich went missing. They will ask questions, make predictions and inferences, identify the author's purpose and learn about text structure while discovering who was actually responsible for eating the sandwich.
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Asking Questions with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Readers will be curious to know more about what actually happened to the sandwich and who is telling the story. They can practice asking questions about the characters and the problem of the story while determining who is the sandwich-eating culprit!
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Identifying the Author's Purpose with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Students will use the detailed illustrations and clever text to determine why the author wrote a silly story about a bear eating a sandwich.
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RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7D,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.10A,2.9C,2.8C,2.7E,2.1A,2.7C,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Inferences with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

This lesson plan provides students with an easy way to practice making inferences. Students will access their background knowledge about animals, forests, parks, and sandwiches to infer how the sandwich really disappeared.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.8B,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6F,2.6E,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Making Predictions with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

With text and picture clues, students will be able to predict what event happens next in order to unveil the truth about the sandwich and the bear!
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RL.2.1,RL.2.3,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7B,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.7C,2.1A,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6C,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

The Bear Ate Your Sandwich provides students with the opportunity to explore a variety of text structures including cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, and problem and solution.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Vowels with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich.
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Running Record with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Read The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. 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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Bear Ate Your Sandwich 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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Sequencing with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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 The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Identifying the Author's Purpose with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Making Inferences with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Sequencing with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich (Spanish)

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Title: The Bear Ate Your Sandwich
Author: Julia Sarcone-Roach
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Adventure, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780307982421
Publisher's Summary:
The Bear Ate Your Sandwich by Julia Sarcone-Roach is a witty and whimsical picture book that invites young readers to unravel the mystery of a missing sandwich. The story opens with an engaging narrator who claims to know exactly what happened to "your sandwich." Readers are taken on a colorful journey beginning with a bear's peaceful morning in the forest, which quickly turns adventurous when the bear accidentally finds himself transported to a bustling city. There, the bear explores the unfamiliar sights and smells, eventually stumbling upon a tempting, unattended sandwich in a park.

As the tale unfolds, children will delight in the bear's antics as he navigates city life, faces unexpected challenges—like avoiding curious dogs—and finally makes his way back home. The narrative's playful tone, paired with vibrant, expressive illustrations, keeps students engaged while introducing them to concepts like storytelling perspective and unreliable narrators. The twist at the end, when the true storyteller is revealed, sparks conversation about truth, point of view, and creative storytelling.

This book is a wonderful classroom read-aloud, perfect for lessons on narrative voice and persuasive writing. Its gentle humor and inviting artwork make it appealing to a wide range of elementary students, encouraging them to participate in discussions about what really happened to the sandwich and who is truly responsible. The Bear Ate Your Sandwich is a charming addition to any classroom library, offering both laughter and opportunities for critical thinking.
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