Whether it's exploring why the author shows the bean feeling left out, thinking about why the cool beans act kindly, or understanding what message the author wants to share about friendship, The Cool Bean by Jory John and Pete Oswald is ideal for learning about the author's purpose. This resource packet helps students identify clues in the story and illustrations to understand why the author wrote this story. Through engaging questions, students will discover how the author teaches an important lesson: kindness, confidence, and being true to yourself.

Whether it's inferring how the bean feels when he's left out or figuring out what it really means to be "cool," The Cool Bean is perfect for practicing inference skills. This resource packet encourages students to look closely at the illustrations and read between the lines to understand characters' emotions, actions, and motivations. Through guided questions and fun activities, students will develop their ability to make inferences and deepen their understanding of the story's message on kindness and inclusion.

Whether identifying the bean's big problem of feeling left out, describing the cool beans, or comparing and contrasting the beans' actions from beginning to end, The Cool Bean by Jory John and Pete Oswald helps students build foundational comprehension skills. Students will use both text and expressive illustrations to answer questions that reveal the story's structure and uncover the message about kindness and friendship.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Cool Bean by Jory John as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Cool Bean 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 The Cool Bean.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Cool Bean. 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 The Cool Bean 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 a hands-on and interactive way.

This resource includes matching/sorting cards and a sorting mat for four cause and effect sentences in The Cool Bean. 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 The Cool Bean 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.

In the book The Cool Bean, we learn that being "cool" means being kind, unique, and true to who you are. With this activity, students can explore what makes them a "cool bean" by drawing themselves with fun details that show their unique style. Afterward, they'll write a sentence or two about what makes them special. This activity encourages self-expression and helps students celebrate what makes them one of a kind!

In The Cool Bean, we saw how acts of kindness help everyone feel included. With this activity, students can think about a kind action they did and write or draw it on a link strip. Each link will join together to create a class kindness chain, showing how everyone's kindness adds up!