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Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Kissing Hand

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Use The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Chester is preparing for his first day of school, but he's nervous he will get homesick and miss his mother, friends, and toys. Luckily, Chester's very wise mother has a special idea that will give Chester the courage to go to school. Beginning readers will connect with Chester's situation as they learn how retelling and summarizing, asking questions, and making predictions while reading can improve their comprehension.
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Asking Questions with The Kissing Hand

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Asking Questions with The Kissing Hand

Because the text in this story encourages readers to wonder about how the main character might solve his problem, The Kissing Hand is a good fit for a lesson on asking questions.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.1.5W.1.8L.1.6RL.1.1RL.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7C1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.8B1.1D1.8C1.6A1.10E1.6B1.13A1.6E1.13D1.6I1.13E1.7B
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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Kissing Hand

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Kissing Hand

The Kissing Hand is helpful for introducing early readers to a lesson on identifying the author's purpose. Readers at this level will easily recognize the themes of the first day of school, missing home and a parent's reassurance.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • W.1.5W.1.8L.1.6RL.1.2RL.1.6RL.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.10E1.7C1.13D1.7D1.13E1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.8A1.1D1.8B1.6A1.8C1.6E1.10A1.6G1.10B1.6I1.10C1.7B
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Making Connections with The Kissing Hand

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Making Connections with The Kissing Hand

This story is ideal for readers who are working to make text-to-self and text-to-text connections. Readers should be able to identify with the main character and his feelings about the first day of school. Likewise, readers will make connections to similar conflicts and resolutions they've read about in stories like First Day Jitters or Chrysanthemum.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3SL.1.5W.1.5RL.1.1W.1.8RL.1.4L.1.6RL.1.9RL.1.10RF.1.1
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.8C1.6A1.10E1.6E1.13A1.6I1.13D1.7A1.13E1.7B1.7C1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.8B1.1D
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Making Predictions with The Kissing Hand

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Making Predictions with The Kissing Hand

Using The Kissing Hand as an anchor text, readers will be able to draw upon their own experiences on the first day of school to make logical predictions about the events and solutions facing the main character.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3W.1.5W.1.8L.1.6RL.1.1RL.1.9RL.1.10
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.8C1.6A1.9C1.6C1.10B1.6E1.10C1.6I1.10E1.7B1.13D1.7C1.13E1.7D1.7E1.1A1.7F1.1C1.8B1.1D
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Retelling & Summarizing with The Kissing Hand

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Kissing Hand

The Kissing Hand is an excellent resource for beginner readers who are learning to retell to improve their comprehension. Readers can easily identify the problem and solution in the story. The characters and the sequence of events are also very clear, which will support the reader's use of time-order words when retelling and summarizing.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RL.1.2W.1.8RL.1.3L.1.6RL.1.7RL.1.10RF.1.1RF.1.2SL.1.1bSL.1.2SL.1.3SL.1.5RL.1.1W.1.5
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7D1.13E1.7E1.7F1.1A1.8A1.1C1.8B1.1D1.8C1.6A1.8D1.6G1.9C1.6I1.10A1.7B1.10E1.7C1.13D
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Suffixes with The Kissing Hand

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Suffixes with The Kissing Hand

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn as a springboard for instruction focused on suffixes.

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

Common Core State Standards Alignment
  • RF.1.3RF.1.4
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Vocabulary Connections with The Kissing Hand

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Vocabulary Connections with The Kissing Hand

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Kissing Hand 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.1.4aL.1.5cL.1.6
TEKS Alignment
  • 1.7F1.3A1.3B1.3C1.3D
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Running Record with The Kissing Hand

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Running Record with The Kissing Hand

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Kissing Hand. 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 Kissing Hand

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Cause and Effect Matching with The Kissing Hand

Read The Kissing Hand 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 Kissing Hand. 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 Kissing Hand

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Kissing Hand

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Kissing Hand 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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Writing with The Kissing Hand

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Writing with The Kissing Hand

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 Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Identifying the Author’s Purpose with The Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Making Connections with The Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Making Predictions with The Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Writing with The Kissing Hand (Spanish)

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Title: The Kissing Hand
Author: Audrey Penn
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Back to School, Family
ISBN: 9781933718361
Publisher's Summary:
School is starting in the forest, but Chester Raccoon does not want to go. To help ease Chester's fears, Mrs. Raccoon shares a family secret called the Kissing Hand to give him the reassurance of her love any time his world feels a little scary. Since its first publication in 1993, this heartwarming book has become a children's classic that has touched the lives of millions of children and their parents, especially at times of separation, whether starting school, entering daycare, or going to camp. It is widely used by kindergarten teachers on the first day of school. Stickers at the back will help children and their parents keep their Kissing Hand alive.
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