Use your students' emotional connection to the storyline in Trudy Ludwig's The Invisible Boy to get them wondering about Brian's thoughts and feelings as he tries to find a way to become visible at school.

This ready-to-use making connections mini lesson will have your readers thinking about ways they can make text-to-self and text-to-text connections to improve their understanding of The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig.

Because every student has some experience with feeling left out, The Invisible Boy is a natural fit for a making inferences mini lesson. This step-by-step guide will show readers how to combine their prior knowledge with text clues to make logical inferences about the story.

The engaging and relatable storyline about a boy and his desire to make friends and "be seen" allows students to easily develop their retelling and summarizing skills using The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig.

Encourage readers to flex their synthesizing muscles while reading Trudy Ludwig's The Invisible Boy. This mini lesson prompts readers to think about Brian and his classmates as they grow and change throughout the story.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig as a springboard for instruction focused on contractions.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Invisible Boy 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 Invisible Boy.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Invisible Boy. 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 Invisible Boy 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 Invisible Boy. 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 Invisible Boy 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.

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.