Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for The Paper Bag Princess

Use The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how words work.

A fairy tale with a twist: Early readers will have fun with this active story about Princess Elizabeth and her quest to save Prince Ronald from a nasty dragon. As students read, they'll practice making connections, retelling and summarizing, visualizing, and identifying and comparing familiar text structures.

Explore lesson plans and activities to help you teach with The Paper Bag Princess in the drop down below.

Making Connections with The Paper Bag Princess

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Making Connections with The Paper Bag Princess

The Paper Bag Princess is a smart choice for early readers who are still learning to make connections, especially text-to-text connections. Because this is an updated fairy tale, readers will be able to draw connections between this book and familiar fairy tale stories.
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Retelling & Summarizing with The Paper Bag Princess

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Retelling & Summarizing with The Paper Bag Princess

The action in this story makes it an excellent resource for supporting readers who are working to identify and retell events to improve reading comprehension. There are only three characters in this story, it follows a conventional sequence, and the conflict and resolution are clear to new readers.
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Understanding Text Structure with The Paper Bag Princess

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Understanding Text Structure with The Paper Bag Princess

The Paper Bag Princess is based on a classic fairy tale text structure, but offers readers a surprise ending. Therefore, in addition to working through description and cause/effect text structures, readers will also practice comparing and contrasting this updated fairy tale with more familiar fairy tales to further define their understanding of the genre.
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Visualizing with The Paper Bag Princess

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Visualizing with The Paper Bag Princess

With high action and engaging descriptive language, this book pairs perfectly with a lesson on visualizing. The illustrations in this book are also based closely on the text, so readers can compare their own mental images to the illustrations to learn how to self-monitor their use of this strategy.
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Vowels with The Paper Bag Princess

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Vowels with The Paper Bag Princess

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

By anchoring word study to the text, students will benefit from seeing how bossy E (CVCe) is used inside of the text before engaging in both guided and independent practice with vowels.

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Vocabulary Connections with The Paper Bag Princess

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Vocabulary Connections with The Paper Bag Princess

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Paper Bag Princes 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.

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Running Record with The Paper Bag Princess

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Running Record with The Paper Bag Princess

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Paper Bag Princess. 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.

Cause and Effect Matching with The Paper Bag Princess

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Cause and Effect Matching with The Paper Bag Princess

Read The Paper Bag Princess 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 Paper Bag Princess. 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.

Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Paper Bag Princess

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Cause and Effect Sentence Stems with The Paper Bag Princess

Understanding cause and effect is a key comprehension and language skill. The text structure of The Paper Bag Princess 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.

Character Traits with The Paper Bag Princess

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Character Traits with The Paper Bag Princess

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.

Making Connections with The Paper Bag Princess (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
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Retelling & Summarizing with The Paper Bag Princess (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Understanding Text Structure with The Paper Bag Princess (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Visualizing with The Paper Bag Princess (Spanish)

  • Student Practice Page and Answer Key
  • Reader's Notebook Prompt
  • Graphic Organizer

Character Traits with The Paper Bag Princess (Spanish)

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About the Book

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Title: The Paper Bag Princess
Author: Robert Munsch
Genre: Fairy Tale
Themes: Friendship, Laugh Out Loud
ISBN: 9780545994972
Publisher's Summary:
Elizabeth, a beautiful princess, is all set to marry Prince Ronald until a dragon smashes her castle, burns her clothes with his fiery breath and prince-naps her beloved Ronald. She throws on a large paper bag and sets off to find the dragon and rescue her cherished prince. But it turns out he may not be the right guy for her.
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