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Use The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

Readers will follow a young girl and her trusty four-legged assistant as they attempt to make the most magnificent thing. When the girl attempts to design something magnificent go from bad to worse, she learns to rely on her creativity, engineering-design thinking, and growth mindset skills to help her preserve and reach her goal. The Most Magnificent Thing is a perfect anchor text for comprehension strategy mini lessons and exploring the topics of STEM in an approachable, fun way.
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Asking Questions with The Most Magnificent Thing

Asking questions while reading Ashley Spires' The Most Magnificent Thing helps readers think about what they already know about the girl's process of creating something magnificent, and what they want to find out more about. Additionally, this mini lesson prompts students to think critically about the steps involved in working through a STEM problem.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.1c,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.13A,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Determining Importance with The Most Magnificent Thing

As readers sift through the details of The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires, they will need to consider whether or not the characters, setting, and events are important to understanding the story. This focused mini lesson will get readers thinking about the girl's problem and how she solved it.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.2,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.8A,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6G,2.6E,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Synthesizing with The Most Magnificent Thing

Synthesizing with The Most Magnificent Thing gets readers involved by reflecting on their feelings about the girl as she tries to work through her problem. Additionally, readers will also be asked to think about how she is solving her problem, making this synthesizing mini lesson the perfect blend of comprehension strategy work and process evaluation.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.1,RL.2.2,RL.2.3,RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.6,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.6I,2.6H,2.6B,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Understanding Text Structure with The Most Magnificent Thing

Author Ashley Spires tells the story of the girl's creative building process through the use of sequence, description, problem and solution, and cause and effect text structures. When students use this mini lesson to identify the text structures in The Most Magnificent Thing, they are better able to understand the story.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.4,RL.2.5,RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7E,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.10B,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.1A,2.7D,2.7C,2.7B,2.6I,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Visualizing with The Most Magnificent Thing

Ashley Spires' use of descriptive words in The Most Magnificent Thing encourages readers to create mental images of the events in the story. This focused mini lesson shows readers where to pause and visualize while reading, and how to use the illustrations to check their thinking.
Common Core State Standards Alignment
RL.2.7,RL.2.10,RF.2.3,RF.2.4,SL.2.1b,SL.2.2,SL.2.3,W.2.8,L.2.6
TEKS Alignment
2.7C,2.13G,2.13E,2.13C,2.10C,2.9C,2.8C,2.7F,2.7E,2.7D,2.1A,2.7B,2.7A,2.6I,2.6E,2.6D,2.6A,2.1D,2.1C
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Prefixes with The Most Magnificent Thing

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires as a springboard for instruction focused on prefixes.

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

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RF.2.3,RF.2.4
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Vocabulary Connections with The Most Magnificent Thing

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Most Magnificent Thing 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.2.4a,L.2.5a,L.2.6
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2.7E,2.7F,2.3A,2.3B,2.3D
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Comprehension Assessment with The Most Magnificent Thing

Use this Common Core aligned comprehension assessment to evaluate students' comprehension of The Most Magnificent Thing.
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Running Record with The Most Magnificent Thing

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Most Magnificent Thing. 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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Writing with The Most Magnificent Thing

After reading gather your supplies and draw up your plans for a fun team building experience! Divide your class into three groups, give each group one of the projects outlined on this resource and watch as they work together to build something truly magnificent!
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Asking Questions with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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Determining Importance with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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Synthesizing with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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Understanding Text Structure with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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Visualizing with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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Writing with The Most Magnificent Thing (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: The Most Magnificent Thing
Author: Ashley Spires
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Themes: Growth Mindset, STEAM / STEM, Perseverance
ISBN: 9781771382045
Publisher's Summary:
A little girl and her canine assistant set out to make the most magnificent thing. But after much hard work, the end result is not what the girl had in mind. Frustrated, she quits. Her assistant suggests a long walk, and as they walk, it slowly becomes clear what the girl needs to do to succeed. A charming story that will give kids the most magnificent thing: perspective!
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