Use The Curious Garden by Peter Brown to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.
This story tells a heartwarming and inspiring tale of a young boy named Liam whose decision to look after a dying garden helps his city become a better place. The lovely illustrations and sweet, simple text will compel students to infer the storyline, identify various text structures, retell and summarize the story, and determine the importance of Liam's actions.
Students are also provided with numerous opportunities to synthesize as this text shows how slow changes over time can lead to a powerful outcome. Aside from these foundational comprehension skills, this collection of resources features a lesson on vowel teams, a real-world application of the story in the extension activity, and a set of key vocabulary terms.
Peter Brown's text and illustrations offer many opportunities for students to practice retelling and summarizing. With limited characters and a setting of evolving seasons, this story supports students to think deeply about their retelling and summarizing.
Students are given opportunities to think deeply about Liam and the garden as they are both featured as main characters in The Curious Garden by Peter Brown.
Readers will enjoy answering questions about the changes in the garden, the city, and the seasons. Both the illustrations and the text lend themselves to this key comprehension skill, and students will be sure to enjoy the growth of The Curious Garden from beginning to end.
This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Curious Garden by Peter Brown as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.
By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how vowel Teams "ee" and "ea" are used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.
Read The Curious Garden 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 Curious Garden. 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 Curious Garden 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 Curious Garden, Liam transforms his city by nurturing a small garden, making it a greener and more beautiful place. With this activity, students will think about their own community and create an action plan for making a positive change. This encourages them to explore ways to improve their surroundings and take small steps toward a better future.
One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time.
While out exploring one day, a little boy named Liam discovers a struggling garden and decides to take care of it. As time passes, the garden spreads throughout the dark, gray city, transforming it into a lush, green world.
This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.
