In another favorite by Judy Blume, students will find themselves entertained while they easily identify messages about sibling rivalry and the unconditional love of parents. And, with two character versions of this story, readers will practice identifying supporting evidence throughout a text.

The Pain and the Great One is an ideal text to pair with a lesson on making connections, because most readers will be able to connect to one or both of the characters in this story. Students can also practice making text-to-text and text-to-world connections to enhance their comprehension while reading.

This book and lesson plan offer a fun way to practice making inferences with mid- to high-level readers. The story is told from two opposing character perspectives, so readers will need to make inferences about what information is positively accurate, about the emotions of each character, and about whether the parents really do love the two siblings equally.

Students enjoy using The Pain and the Great One to practice making predictions based on the character relationships in this book. Students will also learn how to connect their own experiences with the text in order to make logical predictions about the events and outcome of the story.

The Pain and the Great One is the perfect lesson plan for readers who are working to understand and comprehend a variety of text structures. Using this text, students will learn to understand point of view and how to comprehend text based on two different perspectives.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume as a springboard for instruction focused on homophones.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Pain and the Great One 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 Pain and the Great One.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Pain and the Great One. 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 Pain and the Great One 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 Pain and the Great One. 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 Pain and the Great One 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.