Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich in the drop down below.

Asking Questions with The Bear Ate Your 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!
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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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Making Inferences with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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.
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Making Predictions with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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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Understanding Text Structure with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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.
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Vowels with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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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Vocabulary Connections with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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
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Running Record with 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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.

Sequencing with The Bear Ate Your Sandwich

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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.

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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  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

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:
By now I think you know what happened to your sandwich. But you may not know how it happened. So let me tell you. It all started with the bear . . . So begins Julia Sarcone-Roach’s delicious tale of a bear, lost in the city, who happens upon an unattended sandwich in the park. The bear’s journey from forest to city and back home again is full of happy accidents, funny encounters, and sensory delights. The story is so engrossing, it’s not until the very end that we begin to suspect this is a TALL tale.
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