The Runaway Bunny is an ideal text for beginning readers who are working to understand an author's purpose for writing stories. By using the prompts included in this lesson plan, students will be able to empathize and relate what the author is trying to convey about parent/child relationships.

This making connections mini lesson encourages students to identify with the story of a little bunny who imagines running away from home. Margaret Wise Brown's telling of the conversation between the bunny and his mother makes it easy to help readers make text-to-self, text-to-world, and text-to-text connections.

With the resources provided in this making predictions mini lesson, your students will learn to use information in the text to make predictions about what the mother rabbit will say to her baby bunny.

The Runaway Bunny is an ideal anchor text for a mini lesson focused on retelling and summarizing. Use this lesson to help young readers recognize and retell applicable information about the characters, setting, and plot.

Within the pages of The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown uses a wide variety of descriptive language to tell the story of a mother rabbit and baby bunny. This visualizing lesson plan will support readers as they work to make mental images based on their prior knowledge. It will also teach readers to check their mental images against the illustrations in the book.

This word work lesson plan and set of teaching resources use The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown as a springboard for instruction focused on vowels.

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

This set of vocabulary development resources for The Runaway Bunny 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 Runaway Bunny.

Use this Running Record to assess oral reading fluency with The Runaway Bunny. 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 Runaway Bunny 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 Runaway Bunny. 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 Runaway Bunny 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.